from NH1.2.1GA to NH2.0.0

Fabio Maulo — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:09:53 GMT

Current revision posted to NHibernate 2.0 by Fabio Maulo on 11/05/2009 12:09:53 p.m.

Infrastructure

* .NET 1.1 is no longer supported

* Nullables.NHibernate is no longer supported (use nullable types of .NET 2.0)

* Contrib projects moved to http://sourceforge.net/projects/nhcontrib

Compile time

* NHibernate.Expression namespace was renamed to NHibernate.Criterion

* IInterceptor have additional methods. (IsUnsaved was renamed IsTransient)

* INamingStrategy

* IType

* IEntityPersister

* IVersionType

* IBatcher

* IUserCollectionType

* IEnhancedUserType

* IPropertyAccessor

* ValueTypeType renamed to PrimitiveType

Possible Breaking Changes for external frameworks

* Various classes were moved between namespaces

* Various classes have been renamed (to match Hibernate 3.2 names)

* ISession interface have additional methods

* ICacheProvider

* ICriterion

* CriteriaQueryTranslator

Initialization time

* <nhibernate> section, in App.config, is no longer supported and will be ignored. Configuration schema for configuration file and App.config is now identical, and the App.config section name is: <hibernate-configuration>

* <hibernate-configuration> have a different schema and all properties names are cheked

* configuration properties are no longer prefixed by "hibernate.", if before you would specify "hibernate.dialect", now you specify just "dialect"

* All named queries will be validated at initialization time, an exception will be thrown if any is not valid (can be disabled if needed)

* Stricter checks for proxying classes (all public methods must be virtual)

Run time

* SaveOrUpdateCopy() returns a new instance of the entity without changing the original

* AutoFlush will not occur outside a transaction - Database transactions are never optional, all communication with the database must occur inside a transaction, whatever you read or write data.

* NHibernate will return long for count(*) queries on SQL Server

* <formula> must contain parenthesis when needed

* The HQL functions names may cause conflic in your HQL (reserved names are: substring,locate,trim,length,bit_length,coalesce,nullif,abs,mod,sqrt,upper,lower,cast,extract,concat,current_timestamp,sysdate,second,minute,hour,day,month,year,str)

* <any> when meta-type="class" the persistent type is a string containing the Class.FullName (In order to set a parameter in a query you must use SetParameter("paraName", typeof(YourClass).FullName, NHibernateUtil.ClassMetaType) )

Mapping

* <any> : default meta-type is "string" (was "class")