Hi there

I just started with NHibernate which runs just great out of the box. However, I was hoping to apply a somewhat mixed strategy: For maintenance, my users will have to work with large amounts of tabular data only (editing grids): In this case, I want to apply direct data binding to relational data. However, for everything else, I'd rather work with objects. My use case looks like this:

1: System binds data to grid and shows table
2: If needed, user selects row and requests some advanced functionality
3: System transforms data of selected row into a business object for further processing (without running another query against the DB).

In other words: I'd like to access NH's mapping engine directly in order to just perform the mapping without accessing the database again. I've applied this technique pretty often with my old ORM tool, so I hope I just overlooked it. Any idea?

Thanks for your advice
Philipp

You can use session.Lock() to associate an entity with a session.

Thanks for the fast reply! However, I don't see how to solve my problem that way - I don't even have an object yet (do I have to create an empty dummy instance?). Imagine the following snippet:



Thanks in advance :)

Philipp