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Daniel Doubrovkine

aka dB., @awscloud, former CTO @artsy, +@vestris, NYC

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For someone who got stuck with NHibernate 1.1 it was actually surprisingly hard to find much about projections. Before you had to do different queries for a COUNT or a SELECT and you couldn’t use ICriteria.

int count = (int) session.CreateQuery(string.Format(
 "SELECT COUNT(instance) FROM Login instance WHERE Role='{0}'",
 TransitLoginRole.Administrator.ToString()))
 .UniqueResult();

This is resolved with a projection.

int count = session.CreateCriteria(typeof(Login))
 .Add(Expression.Eq("Role", TransitLoginRole.Administrator.ToString()))
 .SetProjection(Projections.Count("Id"))
 .UniqueResult<int>();

IList<Login> logins = session.CreateCriteria(typeof(Login))
 .Add(Expression.Eq("Role", TransitLoginRole.Administrator.ToString()))
 .List<Login>();

Nice and easy.