I got a legacy database where the value of 0 was used in FK columns to indicate that no relation have been specified.
This is not something that I can change in a trivial way. Is it possible to tell NHibernate to treat 0 as null in specified columns?
Edit
I know about not-found
, but I just want to ignore those with 0.
This solution worked great for us: http://nhibernate.info/blog/2011/01/28/how-to-use-0-instead-of-null-for-foreign-keys.html
In short:
Add the following class:
public class NullableTuplizer : PocoEntityTuplizer
{
public NullableTuplizer(EntityMetamodel entityMetamodel, PersistentClass mappedEntity)
: base(entityMetamodel, mappedEntity)
{
}
public override object[] GetPropertyValuesToInsert(
object entity, IDictionary mergeMap, ISessionImplementor session)
{
object[] values = base.GetPropertyValuesToInsert(entity, mergeMap, session);
//dirty hack 1
for (int i = 0; i < values.Length; i++)
{
if (values[i ] == null && typeof (IEntity).IsAssignableFrom(getters[i ].ReturnType))
{
values[i ] = ProxyFactory.GetProxy(0, null);
}
}
return values;
}
public override object[] GetPropertyValues(object entity)
{
object[] values = base.GetPropertyValues(entity);
//dirty hack 2
for (int i = 0; i < values.Length; i++)
{
if (values[i ] == null && typeof (IEntity).IsAssignableFrom(getters[i ].ReturnType))
{
values[i ] = ProxyFactory.GetProxy(0, null);
}
}
return values;
}
public override void SetPropertyValues(object entity, object[] values)
{
//dirty hack 3.
for (int i = 0; i < values.Length; i++)
{
if (typeof (IEntity).IsAssignableFrom(getters[i ].ReturnType)
&& ((IEntity) values[i ]).Id == 0)
{
values[i ] = null;
}
}
base.SetPropertyValues(entity, values);
}
}
Then register it for every relevant mapping:
foreach (var persistentClass in configuration.ClassMappings)
{
persistentClass.AddTuplizer(EntityMode.Poco, typeof(NullableTuplizer).AssemblyQualifiedName);
}