Is it possible to extend the set of persistent collections recognized by NHibernate?

Question

Dear ladies and sirs.

Suppose I wish to inherit PersistentGenericBag, so that the actual type of my collection property is my custom type, which derives from PersistentGenericBag.

I see two possible ways to achieve this:

• Introduce a new XML keyword, like mybag and somehow register my collection type with NHibernate to associated it with the mybag keyword.
• Override the default logic of associating a collection type with an XML keyword to let NHibernate associated my custom collection type with the well known bag XML keyword.

I am not sure if either is possible, so I would like to get any more information on the subject.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I think I have found the answer - utilize the collection-type attribute of bag,map, etc... This post helped me to get started. Hope it will yield the desired results.