I'm using NHibernate 3.0 with both the LINQ provider and QueryOver. Sometimes I want to eager load related data, and there comes the method "Fetch" to the rescue, both in LINQ and QueryOver. Now I have a special scenario where I want to eager load a property not directly on the second level, like:
Foo f = ...;
f.A.B.C
with LINQ there's no problem, as you can "chain" fetches with the method "ThenFetch", like:
var result = Session.Query<Foo>().Fetch(a => a.A).ThenFetch(b => b.B).ThenFetch(c => c.C).ToList();
In QueryOver there's no such method, so how can I achieve the same result?
Thanks in advance.
I actually managed to solve this problem using two different approaches:
Approach one:
Session.QueryOver<Foo>().Fetch(x => x.A).Fetch(x => x.A.B).Fetch(x => x.A.B.C)
Approach two:
A a = null;
B b = null;
C c = null;
Session.QueryOver<Foo>()
.JoinAlias(x => x.A, () => a)
.JoinAlias(() => a.B, () => b)
.JoinAlias(() => b.C, () => c)
Both work (altough I'm not exactly sure if one of them generated "inner" and the other one "outer" joins).
Just as a curiosity, I'll post the reply they gave me on the NHibernate Jira:
query
.Fetch(p => p.B)
.Fetch(p => p.B.C) // if B is not a collection ... or
.Fetch(p => p.B[0].C) // if B is a collection ... or
.Fetch(p => p.B.First().C) // if B is an IEnumerable (using .First() extension method)
I think you can do that with JoinQueryOver
IQueryOver<Relation> actual =
CreateTestQueryOver<Relation>()
.Inner.JoinQueryOver(r => r.Related1)
.Left.JoinQueryOver(r => r.Related2)
.Right.JoinQueryOver(r => r.Related3)
.Full.JoinQueryOver(r => r.Related4)
.JoinQueryOver(r => r.Collection1, () => collection1Alias)
.Left.JoinQueryOver(r => r.Collection2, () => collection2Alias)
.Right.JoinQueryOver(r => r.Collection3)
.Full.JoinQueryOver(r => r.People, () => personAlias);
来源:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4801235/nhibernate-3-alternatives-to-thenfetch-in-queryover