NHibernate query against the key field of a dictionary (map)

Question

I have an object model where a Calendar object has an IDictionary called UserPermissions, where MembershipUser is an object, and Perms

Answer 1

Just trying to do this myself and it looks like this can be done with HQL but not the Criteria API.

https://nhibernate.jira.com/browse/NH-1795

To do it in HQL:

http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2009/06/03/nhibernate-mapping-ndash-ltmapgt.aspx

Specifically look for Ayende's comment:

It is something like: select 1 from Profile p join p.Entries e where index(e) = 'HasCats' and e = 'true'