Hello,

I've a table called Product. In this tables there are two columns called ElementWeight_Unit and ElementWeight_Val.
On the business Side I have two classes that looks like this:

public class Product
{
public int Id {get; set;}
public string Name {get; set;}
public Quantity Weight {get; set;}
}


public class Quantity
{
public float Value {get; set;}
public string Unit {get; set;}
}

I would like to load the data of the two colums (ElementWeight_Unit and ElementWeight_Val) in the property "Weight" of type Quantity.

How can I achieve this ?

Regards,

mathmax

Hi mathmax,

Your best option is probably to make Quantity implement IUserType, then you can map it directly:
http://www.milkcarton.com/blog/2006/12/31/CompositeUserTypes+In+NHibernate.aspx

Alternatively, you may be able to use protected properties for the individual parts of the Weight if the Quantity class is immutable:


Regards,
Richard