Stefan Sedich's Blog

Last week working on a project I noticed that our integration tests had some messy clean-up code. Basically the tests were creating data in the database and then were responsible for cleaning up the data.........

Read more on my new blog: http://www.stefansedich.com/2011/05/easy-temporary-data-in-nhibernate.html

Thought it was time I start my own Utils library (why not everyone else seems to have one), I have things like a UnitOfWork implementation, base Repository class, and plan to add more things as I go.

This is still a work in progress and I would appreciate any feedback out there, in the meantime I will continue my work on it.

You can find the project on GitHub @ http://github.com/stefansedich/YetAnotherUtilsLib


Cheers
Stefan

UPDATE:

I have forked fluent NH here: http://github.com/stefansedich/fluent-nhibernate, and added a change so we can just use:

.Database(SQLiteConfiguration.Standard.InMemory().ShowSql())

By default the InMemory() helper will now add the pooling support, I sent a push request, so hopefully this hits trunk. Not sure if I was being silly but I do not see a need where you would not pool in memory SQLite anyway.

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Just playing around with FNH for the first time, getting my unit tests running proved to be a pain, did a Google and had no luck finding a solution to my problem.

A quick play using the fluent config I found a way to get it working, my full session factory setup is below:

public ISessionFactory GetSessionFactory() { return Fluently.Configure() .Database(SQLiteConfiguration.Standard.InMemory() .ConnectionString("Data Source=:memory:;Version=3;New=True;Pooling=True;Max Pool Size=1;")) .Mappings(m => m.FluentMappings.AddFromAssembly(typeof(CustomerRepository).Assembly)) .ExposeConfiguration(config => new SchemaExport(config).Create(true, true)) .BuildSessionFactory(); }

The key was to set the Pooling=True;Max PoolSize=1; in my config, looking at fluent NH the .InMemory() shortcut seems to not set these:

public SQLiteConfiguration InMemory() { Raw("connection.release_mode", "on_close"); return ConnectionString(c => c .Is("Data Source=:memory:;Version=3;New=True;")); }

Guess it would be great if it did, but for the time being I will just do it manually.


Cheers
Stefan

Time for my first post in a while, thought I would post on session management using Castle Windsor.

I found this good post, http://blog.stevehorn.cc/2009/03/fluent-nhibernate-configured-via.html and I have basically converted it to use Castle for IoC instead.

The Windsor config that will work is below:

var container = new WindsorContainer();
container.AddFacility(); // This adds support to be able to use the UsingFactoryMethod.

container.Register(Component.For().ImplementedBy().LifeStyle.Singleton);
container.Register(Component.For().UsingFactoryMethod(x => x.Resolve() .GetSessionFactory() .OpenSession()).LifeStyle.PerWebRequest);

The only other addition that is needed for Windsor is to add the PerWebRequest module to your Web.config file in the httpModules section:

<add name="PerRequestLifestyle" type="Castle.MicroKernel.Lifestyle.PerWebRequestLifestyleModule, Castle.MicroKernel" />

And you are done, nice and simple NHibernate Session management using a Windsor container.



Cheers Stefan

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Cheers Stefan

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