CONGRATULATION!!!
You have discovered one thing I don't know about NH.
Thanks you very much!!!

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 5:13 PM, David McClelland <[email protected]
> wrote:

> I did figure out how to get use only one SELECT statement by
> incorporating a LEFT JOIN into the query.  I used the optional
> attribute instead of the fetch attribute:
>
> <join table="EntityAddress" optional="true">
>
> So...   now the nicely clean EntityAndPrimaryAddress is returned even
> if there is only an Entity with no corresponding address.
>
> - David
>
>
> On Dec 3, 12:51 pm, Jason Meckley <[email protected]> wrote:
> > you could map the address to a private field and expose those
> > properties on the EntityAndPrimaryAddress object. the public api
> > remains clean. the "ugly code" remain encapsulated within the
> > EntityAndPrimaryAddress object.
> >
> > public class EntityAndPrimaryAddress
> > {
> >     private Address address;
> >
> >         public virtual int EntityId { get; set; }
> >         public virtual int CreatedBy { get; set; }
> >         public virtual DateTime CreatedDate { get; set; }
> >         public virtual int ModifiedBy { get; set; }
> >         public virtual DateTime ModifiedDate { get; set; }
> >         public virtual int UpdateCounter { get; set; }
> >
> >         public virtual bool IsPrimary
> >         {
> >                 get {return address.IsPrimary;}
> >                 set {address.IsPrimary = value;}
> >         }
> >     ... the rest of the properties.
> >
> > }
> >
> > i don't see what other options you have. when working with a legacy
> > database details of the database will spill into the domain. the only
> > way to prevent this is to refactor the database along with the code.
> >
> > something else to consider is why querying with a single select is a
> > problem.
> >
> > On Dec 3, 1:06 pm, Fabio Maulo <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > sure.
> > > but you know... the <join> is only a "licenza poetica" of ORM for
> legacy DB
> > > not designed following ORM.
> >
> > > When you say that the state of an entity is spanned in two tables it
> mean
> > > exactly that to have the state of an entity NH have to join (inner) two
> > > tables; there isn't another option, NH have to read all properties.
> > > Perhaps you can try using lazy=true in each property and see what will
> > > happen, perhaps it will work but AFIK we don't have a specific test for
> this
> > > situation.
> >
> > > P.S. ORM= Object Relational *Mapping*
> >
> > > On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 2:36 PM, David McClelland <
> [email protected]
> >
> > > > wrote:
> > > > But a <one-to-one> won't give me the nicely-flattened entity that I'm
> > > > interested in:
> >
> > > >    public class EntityAndPrimaryAddress
> > > >    {
> > > >        public virtual int EntityId { get; set; }
> > > >        public virtual int CreatedBy { get; set; }
> > > >        public virtual DateTime CreatedDate { get; set; }
> > > >        public virtual int ModifiedBy { get; set; }
> > > >        public virtual DateTime ModifiedDate { get; set; }
> > > >        public virtual int UpdateCounter { get; set; }
> > > >        public virtual bool IsPrimary { get; set; }
> > > >        public virtual string Name { get; set; }
> > > >        public virtual string Line1 { get; set; }
> > > >        public virtual string Line2 { get; set; }
> > > >        public virtual string City { get; set; }
> > > >        public virtual string State { get; set; }
> > > >        public virtual string PostalCode { get; set; }
> > > >    }
> >
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