I have the following problem.

In my program I have class like


By the way number of fields in class increases - so table, associated with this class began to have overdoze of columns. There is problems with extending configuration with new property.

example:
table SomethingConfiguration
(SomethingConfigurationId, CanSomeoneMakeAction1 bit,
CanSomeoneMakeAction2 bit,
CanSomeoneMakeAction3 bit,
CanSomeoneMakeAction4 bit,
SomeIntegerProperty int
)
table contents example:
1,true,true,false,true,46

I want to store field values of this class as name-value collections in table

example:
table SomethingConfiguration
(SomethingConfigurationId, PropertyName, PropertyValue)

table contents example:
1, "CanSomeoneMakeAction1", "true"
1, "CanSomeoneMakeAction2", "true"
1, "CanSomeoneMakeAction3", "false"
1, "CanSomeoneMakeAction2", "true"
1, "SomeIntegerProperty", "46"

Can NHibernate help me do what I want?

One quick (maybe dirty) way to do this would be keep the configuration in XML (and a HashMap of values in the class) and use NHibernate UserType functionality to map the values in HashMap to the XML in DB.

Hope this helps
Job Samuel

Look into the "component" mapping. It mentioned something about being able to treat a property as an IDictionary, which I think gives you what you want.

Here's a link to the html doc topic:
http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/nhibernate/html/mapping.html#mapping-declaration-component