How to get class mapping information at runtime in Nhibernate?

Question

Where does NHibernate store mapping information at runtime and how to access it? I need to get association properties (complex properties) for a given mapped class at runtime. And i can't rely on reading hbm files because, mapping can be done in fluent nhibernate.

Answer 1

Yes. You can use ISessionFactory.GetClassMetadata to get a metadata object for each persistant type.

http://www.nudoq.org/#!/Packages/NHibernate/NHibernate/ISessionFactory/M/GetClassMetadata