How do I specify the name of the PK in the subclass table when using SubClass in FluentNHibernate?

Question

I am attempting a subclass mapping in Fluent NHibernate.

In the parent class mapping, I have to specify the ID column name to prevent FNH guessing incorrectly:

Id(x => x.Id).Column("UserId");

I also need to specify the ID (or foreign key if you like) field name in the subclass mapping, since FNH is guessing that incorrectly too. How do I do that?

It's kind of lonely being the only person in the world who uses subclasses in Fluent NHibernate. :( — David, Aug 23 '10 at 08:05

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 23 '10 at 10:27

I haven't found a way to directly modify the mapping file itself, but I have found that overriding Fluent NHibernate's foreign key convention did the trick:

public class FKConvention : ForeignKeyConvention
{
  protected override string GetKeyName(FluentNHibernate.Member property, Type type)
  {
    if (property == null)
    {
      // Relationship is many-to-many, one-to-many or join.
      if (type == null)
        throw new ArgumentNullException("type");
      return type.Name + "Id";
    }
    // Relationship is many-to-one.
    return property.Name + "Id";
  }
}

The new convention has to be registered as explained at the bottom of this page: http://wiki.fluentnhibernate.org/Conventions.

How do I specify the name of the PK in the subclass table when using SubClass in FluentNHibernate?

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