How to map uint in NHibernate with SQL Server 2005

Question

I have a property of type uint on my entity. Something like:

public class Enity
{
   public uint Count {get;set;}
}

When I try to persist that into the SQL Server 2005 database, I get an exception

Dialect does not support DbType.UInt32

What would be the easiest way to workaround this. I could for example store it as long in the DB. I only don't know how to tell that to NHibernate.

Answer 1

<property name="Prop" type="long"/>

Answer 2

You could try to add another private "mirror"-property.

public class Enity
{
   public uint Count {get;set;}

   private long CountAsLong 
   { 
     get { return Convert.ToInt64(Count); } 
     set { Count = Convert.ToUInt(value); }
   }
}

<property name="CountAsLong" type="long"/>

Of course you should do this only if it could not be solved by the mapping.

Answer 3

Haven't tried this so not sure if this will work for you but you could try creating your own Dialect and registering that in the web.config/app.config

Dialect class:

public class MyDialect:MsSql2005Dialect
{
    public MyDialect()
    {            
        RegisterColumnType(System.Data.DbType.UInt32, "bigint");            
    }
}

Web.config:

configuration>
 <configSections>
  <section name="hibernate-configuration" type="NHibernate.Cfg.ConfigurationSectionHandler, NHibernate" />
 </configSections>

                <hibernate-configuration xmlns="urn:nhibernate-configuration-2.2">
  <session-factory>
   <property name="connection.provider">NHibernate.Connection.DriverConnectionProvider, NHibernate</property>
   <property name="connection.connection_string">
    Server=127.0.0.1; Initial Catalog=thedatabase; Integrated Security=SSPI
   </property>
   <property name="dialect">MyDialect</property>
   <property name="current_session_context_class">managed_web</property>
  </session-factory>
 </hibernate-configuration>
    <!-- other app specific config follows -->

</configuration>

Answer 4

The cleanest, most official solution would probably be to write a user type.

Take an example, like this one and adapt it. If you have many uint's, it is worth to have a user type.

<property name="Prop" type="UIntUserType"/>