Persisting DateTime when saving/updating entities in fluent nhibernate

Question

I'm trying to persist the datetime of creation and update of entites (not relevent to versioning and concurrency) using fluent nhibernate.

To achieve this using nhibernate I would write this mapping tag:

<timestamp name="Timestamp" access="property" unsaved-value="null" />

How can I make fluent nhiberbate generate that mapping tag?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 11 '15 at 20:55

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If you mean map a DateTime property as this:

<property name="Timestamp" type="Timestamp"/>

This is the equivalent in Fluent NHibernate:

Map(x => x.Timestamp).CustomType<TimestampType>();

answered May 11 '15 at 20:55

Najera

I am trying to generate the values for the column automatically. When I map the column as you suggested, the value inserted into the DB is null – gilad segal May 12 '15 at 05:38
That is not posible, here are some alternatives: http://stackoverflow.com/a/17140292/1486443 and http://stackoverflow.com/a/18919702/1486443 – Najera May 12 '15 at 06:11
How come this isn't possible? This is a trivial feature. Anyway, I think I favor using interceptors over triggers. I'll submit a request for this feature at github – gilad segal May 12 '15 at 07:19

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