Fluent NHibernate Many to one mapping

Question

I am new to Hibernate world. It may be a silly question, but I am not able to solve it. I am testing many to One relationship of tables and trying to insert record. I have a

Answer 1

Mattias' answer is almost right, but ForeignKey is used for schema generation. Try the below mapping instead. Also, you have the Employees collection mapped with CascadeAll. This will delete employee records if you delete a department, which is probably not desirable.

public class DeptMapping : ClassMap<Dept>
    { 
        public DeptMapping() 
        {
            Id(x => x.Id); 
            Map(x => x.DeptName); 
            Map(x => x.DeptLocation); 
            HasMany(x => x.Employees).KeyColumn("DeptId").Inverse().Cascade.All(); 
        } 
    }

public class EmployeeMapping : ClassMap<Employee>
{ 
    public EmployeeMapping() 
    { 
        Id(x => x.Id); 
        Map(x => x.EmpName); 
        Map(x => x.EmpAge); 
        Map(x => x.DeptId); 
        References(x => x.Dept, "DeptId").Cascade.None(); 
   } 
}

Answer 2

[Serializable] 
public partial class Dept   
{       
    public virtual System.String DeptLocation { get; set; }

    public virtual System.String DeptName { get; set; }

    public virtual System.Int32 Id { get; private  set; }   

    //public virtual Iesi.Collections.Generic.ISet<Employee> Employees { get; set; }

    public virtual IList<Employee> Employees { get; set; }

    public Dept()
    {
        Employees = new List<Employee>();      
    }

    public virtual void AddEmployees(Employee employee)
    {
        employee.Dept = this;
        Employees.Add(employee);       
    } 
}

Employee Class

public partial class Employee
{
    //public virtual System.Int32 DeptId { get; set; }
    public virtual System.Int32 EmpAge { get; set; }
    public virtual System.String EmpName { get; set; }
    public virtual System.Int32 Id { get; private set; }
    public virtual Project.Model.Dept  Dept { get; set; }
}

The Code to call the method

try
{
    Dept dept = new Dept();
    dept.DeptLocation = "Austin";
    dept.DeptName = "Store";

    Employee emp = new Employee();
    emp.EmpName = "Ron";
    emp.EmpAge = 30;


    dept.AddEmployees(emp); 


    IRepository<Dept> rDept = new Repository<Dept>();
    rDept.Add(dept);
}

Answer 3

The problem is (as the error message tells you) that you don't have a column named "Dept_id". Your column name is instead "DeptId". The default conventions of fluent nhibernate is that the name should be with the underscore. To solve this you can ether change the name of the column in your database or you can override the convention in your mapping file to tell it to use your column name instead. That can be done in this way:

//EmployeeMapping
References(x => x.Dept).ForeignKey("DeptId").Cascade.None();

//DeptMapping
HasMany(x => x.Employees).KeyColumn("DeptId").Inverse() .Cascade.All();