I have a Class, "User", which has the field "Password". I don't want to have the property accesible EVERY time I have to handle a User, but I do want to use NHibernate for persisting ALL the data, even the password. I was planning on using specific functions for changing the password, but a question arised: is it possible to map the class User in such a way that I can NOT LOAD the password for usual class handling, but DO LOAD it when I want to use the function for password changing?
In case you are wondering, I do save the password encrypted, but still I don't like carrying it around all the time...

Thanks!
Alejandro.

you could factor the password into its own class map the class as lazy="true" and create a <one-to-one outer-join="false"> mapping to it from the member object...

-devon

So, if I have this lazy property and I want to use it, how do I load it into the "User" class when I need it? I open and close the sessions when I load a class.

if your session is closed, and you need to load the one-to-one, then you will probably have to re-open the session and call session.Lock().