How to clear the entire second level cache in NHibernate

Question

I wish to clear the entire second level cache in NHibernate via code. Is there a way to do this which is independent of the cache provider being used? (we have customers us

Answer 1

This should do:

sessionFactory.EvictQueries();
foreach (var collectionMetadata in sessionFactory.GetAllCollectionMetadata())
         sessionFactory.EvictCollection(collectionMetadata.Key);
foreach (var classMetadata in sessionFactory.GetAllClassMetadata())
         sessionFactory.EvictEntity(classMetadata.Key);