Setting string to be sql type of “varchar” instead of “nvarchar”

Question

I have the following mapping:

public class LogEntryMap
{
    public LogEntryMap()
    {
        Map.Id(x => x.Id).GeneratedBy.Identity();
        Map(x =&         


        

Answer 1

If you wanted all of your strings to be mapped to varchar instead of nvarchar you could consider using a convention:

/// 

/// Ensures that all of our strings are stored as varchar instead of nvarchar.
/// 
public class OurStringPropertyConvention : IPropertyConvention
{
    public void Apply(IPropertyInstance instance)
    {
        if (instance.Property.PropertyType == typeof (string))
            instance.CustomType("AnsiString");
    }
}

You mappings could then go back to a simple mapping:

Map(x => x.Context);

Just make sure you remember to tell Fluent NH to use the convention:

        var configuration = new Configuration();
        configuration.Configure();
        Fluently
            .Configure(configuration)
            .Mappings(m => m.FluentMappings
                .AddFromAssemblyOf()
                .Conventions.Add()
                )
            .BuildSessionFactory();