NHibernate returning duplicate object in child collections when using Fetch
- by UpTheCreek
When doing a query like this (using Nhibernate 2.1.2):
ICriteria criteria = session.CreateCriteria<MyRootType>()
.SetFetchMode("ChildCollection1", FetchMode.Eager)
.SetFetchMode("ChildCollection2", FetchMode.Eager)
.Add(Restrictions.IdEq(id));
I am getting multiple duplicate objects in some cartesian fashion. E.g. if ChildCollection1 has 3 elements, and ChildColection2 has 2 elements then I get results with each element in ChildColection1 one duplicated, and each element in ChildColection2 triplicated! This was a bit of a WTF moment for me...
So how to do this correctly?
Is using SetFetchMode like this only supported when specifying one collection?
Am I just using it wrong (I've seen some references to results transformers, but imagined this would be simplier).
Is this something that's different in NH3?
Update:
As per Felice's suggestion, I tried using the DistinctRootEntity transformer, but this is still returning duplicates. Code:
ICriteria criteria = session.CreateCriteria<MyRootType>()
.SetFetchMode("ChildCollection1", FetchMode.Eager)
.SetFetchMode("ChildCollection2", FetchMode.Eager)
.Add(Restrictions.IdEq(id));
criteria.SetResultTransformer(Transformers.DistinctRootEntity);
return criteria.UniqueResult<MyRootType>();