Hibernate version:
1.2.0

Mapping documents:
<bag name="Comments">
<key column="ArticleId"></key>
<one-to-many class="Data.ArticleComment, Data"></one-to-many>
</bag>

Name and version of the database you are using:
MSSQL 2005




I was wondering if there was any way to have bag/set/map/list return a generic list such as List<Article> or just a typed Array Article[] rather than an ArrayList, IList, Nhibernate Set, etc. I really hate having to cast everywhere when I know the exact type :)

Check out either NHibernate Generics or NHibernate 1.2.0 Alpha1.

Edit:

And, if you go with the alpha version of nhibernate, then the code (straight from the test suite) would look like this:

<list name="Items" cascade="all-delete-orphan" generic="true">
<key column="a_id" />
<index column="a_idx" />
<one-to-many class="B" />
</list>

public IList<B> Items
{
get { return _items; }
set { _items = value; }
}

good post and answer - thanks!

Thanks, I had to use bag instead of list with that example if I used list it would insert a null row on index 0 for some reason