Hello together,

I'm also a newbie to nHibernate (and c# as well, but that's a different story). I like to build a stronger type check into my object. I know I can't simply use a custom IList object, since these objects get replaced with the nHibernate version of the collection object.

So my plan is, to build a wrapper around a normal IList and serialize this collection. How do I manage to serialize this object together with it's parent? Here is a little code snippet:


public class User
{

private IAddress m_Address;

public User( )
{
m_Address = new AddressObj();
}

public IAddress Address
{
get
{
return m_Address;
}
}
}


public class AddressObj
{
private IList m_List;

public IAddressEntry this[ int index ]
{
get
{
return( (IAddressEntry) m_List[index] );
}
set
{
m_List[index] = value;
}
}

public int Add( IAddressEntry value )
{
return( m_List.Add( value ) );
}

public int IndexOf( IAddressEntry value )
{
return( m_List.IndexOf( value ) );
}

public void Insert( int index, IAddressEntry value )
{
m_List.Insert( index, value );
}

public void Remove( IAddressEntry value )
{
m_List.Remove( value );
}

public bool Contains( IAddressEntry value )
{
return( m_List.Contains( value ) );
}

}


Ok, how do I define my XML so it would serialize my IAddressEntry objects from the m_List member? Is this possible?

Regards, M. Heine...

I have done this by embedding the collection in a component, like so: