Richard Cirerol :
Don,
I am curious to know why you would return a list of statuses on one instance.

My particular situation has to do with business units being allowed to use different invoicing event types — just stuck w/ the Status example from above.

By the way – thanks for the help! Your code example worked out great.

I am curious to know why you would return a list of statuses on one instance. But, I guess I would serialize the values to a delimited string if needed. Something along the lines of this:

protected string _statusList;
public IList StatusList
{
get
{
var list = new List();
_statusList.Split(new[]{”;”},StringSplitOptions.None).ToList()
.ForEach(x=>list.Add(Enumeration.FromValue(x));
return new List{list};
}
set{ _statusList=string.Join(”;”,value.Select(x=>x.Value).ToArray());}
}

and the fluent mapping would be:

public void Override(AutoMapping mapping)
{
mapping.Map(x => x.StatusList)
.CustomType(typeof(string))
.Access.CamelCaseField(Prefix.Underscore);
}

You could also serialize to JSON or XML before persisting the value. The idea is that the protected member is what you would store, while the public member is what you want to interact with.

Hope that helps.

For instance…

public virtual IList MyStatusList
{
get{ return ???? }
set{ _statusList = ???? }
}

Any ideas on how to map these using Fluent NHibernate?