Great idea, looks good to me.
Tuna Toksöz http://tunatoksoz.com Typos included to enhance the readers attention! On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 10:57 PM, James Gregory <jagregory....@gmail.com>wrote: > Guys, > We've been quite regularily receiving requests and/or complaints about not > being able to map private and protected properties. I think we all know why > this isn't possible, and I think we're mostly in agreement that allowing > this is kinda against the purpose of Fluent NHibernate; however, people > still want it. I think it was Chad who suggested that we could supply some > alternative methods that take strings as parameters, as a way to make it > possible but not as intuitive as the lambda mappings (with the purpose of > making people use the lambdas whenever possible, rather than seeing the > lambda parameter and the string parameter and taking the one they know best > - the string). > > I had an idea of an alternative, and I've knocked up a few tests and it > seems to work. > > Map(Reveal.Property<Entity>("PrivatePropertyName")); > HasMany(Reveal.Property<Entity>("PrivateCollection")); > > The Reveal in those statements is a static class, and the Property method > takes a property name and a generic type parameter of the entity being > mapped. It then does some expression magic and builds up an > Expression<Func<Entity, object>> object. This essentially allows us to leave > the mapping completely untouched. No overloads/alternatives for every > method, no maintenance nightmare. If people want to use it, they're welcome > to, but the default route is still the lambda expressions. > > Any thoughts? I've tested this against Map and HasMany, and I haven't had > any trouble, will test everything else before releasing though. > > James > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Fluent NHibernate" group. To post to this group, send email to fluent-nhibernate@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to fluent-nhibernate+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fluent-nhibernate?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
