How do you tell NHibernate to ignore persisting a child object

Question

How do you tell NHibernate to ignore persisting a child object? I have my my mapping set up so a Person has an address so when I attempt to persist Person without an address or with a new address then gives a flushing error. Now I know I can Cascade, but is it possible to tell NHibnerate not to worry about the address?

Answer 1

You can:

• Not map the address at all
• Cascade the address
• Save the address manually

You can't selectively ignore some objects.