NHibernate Projections failure

Question

I have tag class which have relation many-to-many with article class, The problem is I want to make a projection which represent in tag view model class so the column result should be like this

Id|Name|CreatedBy|CreatedDate|LastModifiedBy|LastModifiedDate|ArticlesCount

SQL query should be like this:

 SELECT  t.*, COUNT(at.intTag) as ArticlesCount 
 FROM    dbo.TAG t
         LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.ARTICLE_TAG at ON t.intID = at.intTag
         LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.ARTICLE a ON at.intID = a.intID
 GROUP BY t.intID, t.vcName, t.intWeight, t.vcCreatedBy, t.dtCreated, t.vcLastMod, t.dtLastMod, t.btActive

but it said

  NHibernate.Exceptions.GenericADOException was caught
  HResult=-2146232832
  Message=could not execute query [ SELECT this_.intID as y0_, this_.vcName as y1_, this_.vcCreatedBy as y2_, this_.dtCreated as y3_, this_.vcLastMod as y4_, this_.dtLastMod as y5_, count(this_.intID) as y6_ FROM TB_TAG this_ WHERE this_.btActive = @p0 ]
  Name:cp0 - Value:True

this is my Tag class:

public class Tag {
    public virtual string Name { get; set; }     
    public virtual int Weight { get; set; }
    public virtual IList<Article> Articles { get; set; }
    public virtual string CreatedBy { get; set; }
    public virtual DateTime CreatedDate { get; set; }
    public virtual string LastModifiedBy { get; set; }
    public virtual DateTime LastModifiedDate { get; set; }
    public virtual bool IsActive { get; set; }
}

this is mapping class

internal sealed class TagMap : ClassMap<Tag>
{
    public TagMap()
    {
        Table("TB_TAG");

        Id(f => f.Id).Column("intID").GeneratedBy.Native();

        Map(f => f.Name).Column("vcName").Not.Nullable();
        Map(f => f.Weight).Column("intWeight").Not.Nullable();
        Map(f => f.IsActive).Column("btActive");
        Map(f => f.CreatedBy).Column("vcCreatedBy").Not.Update();
        Map(f => f.CreatedDate).Column("dtCreated").Not.Update();
        Map(f => f.LastModifiedBy).Column("vcLastMod");

        Version(f => f.LastModifiedDate).Column("dtLastMod");

        HasManyToMany(f => f.Articles).Table("S_ARTICLE_TAG")
                                      .ParentKeyColumn("intTag").ChildKeyColumn("intID")
                                      .Inverse();
    }

}

this is ViewModel class:

    public class TagView
    {
        public int Id { get; set; }
        public string Name { get; set; }
        public int ArticlesCount { get; set; }
        public virtual string CreatedBy { get; set; }
        public virtual DateTime CreatedDate { get; set; }
        public virtual string LastModifiedBy { get; set; }
        public virtual DateTime LastModifiedDate { get; set; }
        public virtual bool IsActive { get; set; }
    }

here is my code to make a projection :

Tag t = null;
tags = _session.QueryOver(() => t)
               .Select(Projections.Id().As("Id"),
                       Projections.Property(() => t.Name).As("Name"),
                       Projections.Property(() => t.CreatedBy).As("CreatedBy"),
                       Projections.Property(() => t.CreatedDate).As("CreatedDate"),
                       Projections.Property(() => t.LastModifiedBy).As("LastModifiedBy"),
                       Projections.Property(() => t.LastModifiedDate).As("LastModifiedDate"),
                       Projections.Count(() => t.Articles).As("ArticlesCount"))
               .TransformUsing(Transformers.AliasToBean<TagView>())
               .List<TagView>();

This is my first time using projections and I don't have any clue how to make it work. Did I have miss something here?

Answer 1

After read NHIibernate API and the answer on this link, finally i found a way to make it work.

Here is my final code:

Tag t= null;
TagView tv = null;
tags = _session.QueryOver(() => t)
               .Left.JoinQueryOver(() => t.Articles, () => a)
               .SelectList(list => list
                                       .SelectGroup(() => t.Id).WithAlias(() => tv.Id)
                                       .SelectGroup(() => t.Name).WithAlias(() => tv.Name)
                                       .SelectGroup(() => t.CreatedBy).WithAlias(() => tv.CreatedBy)
                                       .SelectGroup(() => t.CreatedDate).WithAlias(() => tv.CreatedDate)
                                       .SelectGroup(() => t.LastModifiedBy).WithAlias(() => tv.LastModifiedBy)
                                       .SelectGroup(() => t.LastModifiedDate).WithAlias(() => tv.LastModifiedDate)
                                       .SelectCount(() => t.Articles).WithAlias(() => tv.ArticlesCount))
               .TransformUsing(Transformers.AliasToBean<TagView>())
               .List<TagView>();

I need to use .SelectList instead of .Select to projecting a list, also to make nhibernate succesfully counting the articles I need to join it with its related table, to speed up my query also in mapping class initialize tag articles as ExtraLazyLoad property. Hoping I also help someone out there who is facing same problem.