NHibernate. Map 1-many Relationship to Dictionary.

Question

Hi I'm trying to map a one-many parent-child relationship in NHibernate using XML mapping. Easy enough if the parent class instances store the collection of children in a list, but I want to use a dictionary. Can anyone point me to an example that shows how to set up this mapping in XML?

In other words I want my parent class to look like this

public class Parent {

   IDictionary<string, Child> children; // key should be Child.Name

}

It's a standard primary key-foreign key relationship in the database. The Child table has Name column which should be mapped to the dictionary key.

Thanks

Answer 1

Child.Name can't be both a property and the dictionary key.