Can .NET 4 ISet<> HashSet<> replace NHibernate Iesi.Collections ISet , HashSet ? I am using Castle proxy, and NHibernate 3.0 .
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1http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6272636/nhibernate-unable-to-cast-persistentgenericset-to-iset – Mauricio Scheffer Feb 10 '12 at 12:38
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Yes. There are two approaches:
- Declare your collection as
ICollection<T>and initialize it asHashSet<T>. See this article. I model collections as private members and exposeIEnumerable<T>so this works well, but the downside is that you can't exposeISet<T>. - Use Jose Romaniello's Set4Net4 NuGet package. See this article and the source code.
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Hm, when I tried it, NHib for some reason was recreating my collection as an Array, so I could not add/remove items. It just looked at ICollection and decided that it can put whatever it likes... – JustAMartin Feb 22 '13 at 09:25
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No, not as of this reply.
The NHibernate engine uses the Iesi.Collections.ISet interface on internal collection classes which are used as wrappers around collections in your classes which NHibernate persists. There is no direct conversion to System.Collections.Generic.ISet<T>.
Update: NHibernate 4 now uses HashSet<T> from the BCL internally, and HashedSet<T> has been removed from the Iesi.Collections dependency. The approach to use System.Collections.Generic.ISet<T> is now available.
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Yes, with Nhibernate 4, using System.Collections.Generic.ISet<> is now the way to go.
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