Fluent NHibernate Self Referencing Many To Many

Question

I have an entity called Books that can have a list of more books called RelatedBooks.

The abbreviated Book entity looks something likes this:

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Answer 1

Rather than setting the cascade attribute, I think you need to simply empty the RelatedBooks collection before deleting a book.

book.RelatedBooks.Clear();
session.Delete(book);

Cascading deletes is not typically done in a many-to-many relationship because it will delete the object at the other end of the relationship, in this case a Book.