I have a requirement to load a complex object called Node...well its not that complex...it looks like follows:-
A Node has a refere
I figure it out myself. The key is to use SetResultTransformer() passing an object of DistinctRootEntityResultTransformer as a parameter. So the query now looks like as follows
Session.CreateCriteria(typeof (Node))
.SetFetchMode( "Etype", FetchMode.Join )
.SetFetchMode( "Etype.Properties", FetchMode.Join )
.SetFetchMode( "Etype.Properties.ListValues", FetchMode.Join )
.SetResultTransformer(new DistinctRootEntityResultTransformer());
I found the answer to my questions through these links:
http://www.mailinglistarchive.com/html/nhusers@googlegroups.com/2010-05/msg00512.html
http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2010/01/16/eagerly-loading-entity-associations-efficiently-with-nhibernate.aspx