I spent a few hours recently trying to figure out why Fluent NHibernate (FNH) wasn’t doing what I thought it should be doing when using the HiLo generator conventions and then using the SchemaExport tool to generate my schema. After eventually looking at the hbm files that FNH was producing for a possible error and to make sure that I was using FNH correctly, I realised that FNH wasn't the problem, and that the problem lies within SchemaExport.
Fabio Maulo puts this down to design and gives a
solution for using ConfORM. I agree with the comments made and find his answer very unsatisfactory and that there is a bug and that it should be fixed.
Whilst I am sure that that debate will roll on, I have created a solution that matches Fabio’s one for ConfORM but for FNH shown below:
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using FluentNHibernate.Conventions;
using FluentNHibernate.Conventions.Instances;
using Iesi.Collections.Generic;
using NHibernate.Dialect;
using NHibernate.Mapping;
namespace Conventions
{
public class CustomIdentityHiLoGeneratorConvention :IIdConvention
{
public const string NextHiValueColumnName= "NextHiValue";
public const string NHibernateHiLoIdentityTableName = "NHibernateHiLoIdentity";
public const string TableColumnName = "Entity";
#region Implementation of IConvention<IIdentityInspector,IIdentityInstance>
public void Apply(IIdentityInstance instance)
{
instance.GeneratedBy.HiLo(NHibernateHiLoIdentityTableName, NextHiValueColumnName, "500", builder => builder.AddParam("where", string.Format("{0} = '[{1}]'", TableColumnName, instance.EntityType.Name)));
}
#endregion
public static void CreateHighLowScript(NHibernate.Cfg.Configuration config)
{
var script = new StringBuilder();
script.AppendFormat("DELETE FROM {0};", NHibernateHiLoIdentityTableName);
script.AppendLine();
script.AppendFormat("ALTER TABLE {0} ADD {1} VARCHAR(128) NOT NULL;", NHibernateHiLoIdentityTableName, TableColumnName);
script.AppendLine();
script.AppendFormat("CREATE NONCLUSTERED INDEX IX_{0}_{1} ON {0} (Entity ASC);", NHibernateHiLoIdentityTableName, TableColumnName);
script.AppendLine();
script.AppendLine("GO");
script.AppendLine();
foreach (var tableName in config.ClassMappings.Select(m => m.Table.Name).Distinct())
{
script.AppendFormat(string.Format("INSERT INTO [{0}] ({1}, {2}) VALUES ('[{3}]',1);", NHibernateHiLoIdentityTableName, TableColumnName, NextHiValueColumnName, tableName));
script.AppendLine();
}
config.AddAuxiliaryDatabaseObject(new SimpleAuxiliaryDatabaseObject(script.ToString(), null, new HashedSet<string> { typeof(MsSql2000Dialect).FullName, typeof(MsSql2005Dialect).FullName, typeof(MsSql2008Dialect).FullName }));
}
}
}
This is then used as follows:
conventions.Add<CustomIdentityHiLoGeneratorConvention>();
and:
.ExposeConfiguration(CustomIdentityHiLoGeneratorConvention.CreateHighLowScript)