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NHibernate QueryOver with leftjoins


This thing is keeping me busy for days and I hope someone of the NHibernate gurus can help me out. I've got a query set up which is working in SQL Server and I want to get the same in NHibernate. But all my tries (did a lot of googeling and browsing in stackoverflow) failed so far. Here's the query:

Select
  j.id,
  j.title,
  j.company,
  jt.name as category,
  loc.city,
  je.is_assigned,
FROM job j
  LEFT JOIN location loc ON loc.id = j.location
  LEFT JOIN job_tag jt ON jt.job = j.id
    and jt.name in (SELECT name FROM tag WHERE tag_category=''Jobtype'')
  LEFT JOIN job_employee je ON je.job = j.id
    and je.employee_uid = <string>

I would prefer to use QueryOver but would be happy to get recommendations from you guys!

EDIT: What I do have so far is pretty simple...

JobEmployee jobEmployee = null;
Location loc = null;
JobTag jobTag = null;

session.QueryOver<Job>()
  .JoinAlias(x => x.location, () => loc)
  .JoinAlias(x => x.tags, () => jobTag, JoinType.LeftOuterJoin,
     Restrictions.On(jobTag.name).IsIn(<subquery>))
  .List();

But there are errors like "delegate .... does not take 1 arguments".

Best regards, Martin


Solution

  • Here is a draft of the solution... First the subquery:

    var subquery = QueryOver
        .Of<Tag>()
        .Where(t => t.TagCategory == "Jobtype")
        .Select(t => t.Name);
    

    And now, we will use the subquery in the withClause:

    JobEmployee jobEmployee = null;
    Location loc = null;
    JobTag jobTag = null;
    
    var list = session
      .QueryOver<Job>()
      .JoinAlias(x => x.location, () => loc)
      .JoinAlias(x => x.tags, () => jobTag, JoinType.LeftOuterJoin,
    
      // instead of this
      // Restrictions.On(jobTag.name).IsIn(<subquery>))
    
      // use this
        Subqueries.WhereProperty(() => jobTag.name).In(subquery)
      )
      .List();
    

    So, we filtered the JOIN using the withClause and Subqueries