In Castle Activerecord (on top of NHibernate), is it possible to use class table inheritance globally, and single table inheritance on part of the inheritance tree? I would like to do something like
/// <summary>
/// Base class for models
/// </summary>
[ActiveRecord("model"), JoinedBase]
public abstract class Model: ActiveRecordBase
{
/// <summary>
/// Primary Key
/// </summary>
[PrimaryKey(PrimaryKeyType.UuidHex, "ROWID", Params = "format=D,separator=-")]
public virtual string Id { get; set; }
[Property("name")]
public string Name { get; set; }
[Property("description")]
public string Description{ get; set; }
}
/// <summary>
/// A container
/// </summary>
[ActiveRecord("container")]
public class Container : Model
{
/// <summary>
/// Gets the container id
/// </summary>
[JoinedKey("container_id")]
public override string Id
{
get { return base.Id; }
set { base.Id = value; }
}
}
/// <summary>
/// A glass
/// </summary>
[ActiveRecord("container",
DiscriminatorColumn = "container_type",
DiscriminatorValue = "1"
)]
public class Glass : Container
{
}
So that all the common "stuff" (like name, description, etc) is in the "model" table, but I can still use STI on the "container" table. Or is this a waste of time and should I go to STI for the whole thing?
Thanks in advance, Jim