流利的NHibernate：外键不为空的问题

Question

I have the following domain classes:

public class Installation : Entity<Installation>
{        
    public virtual string Name { get; set; }
    public virtual IList<Institution> Institutions { get; set; }

    public Installation()
    {
        Institutions = new List<Institution>();
    }
}
public class Institution : Entity
{
    public virtual string Name { get; set; }
    public virtual string Address { get; set; }
    public virtual string City { get; set; }
    public virtual Installation Installation { get; set; }        
}

I have made the Entity base class according to the following post . I have the following mappings defined:

public class InstitutionMapping : ClassMap<Institution> 
{
    public InstitutionMapping()
    {
        WithTable("Institution");
        Id(i => i.Id).GeneratedBy.Guid();
        Map(i => i.Name).Not.Nullable().WithLengthOf(50);
        Map(i => i.Address).Not.Nullable().WithLengthOf(50);
        Map(i => i.City).Not.Nullable().WithLengthOf(50);
        References(i => i.Installation).ColumnName("InstallationId").Not.Nullable().WithForeignKey();
    }
}
public class InstallationMapping : ClassMap<Installation>
{
    public InstallationMapping()
    {
        WithTable("Installation");
        Id(i => i.Id).GeneratedBy.Guid();
        Map(i => i.Name).Not.Nullable().WithLengthOf(50);
        HasMany<Institution>(i => i.Institutions).KeyColumnNames.Add("InstallationId").Cascade.All();
    }
}

When I run the following code:

Installation installation = TestHelper.CreateAnonymousInstallation();
installation.Institutions.Add(TestHelper.CreateAnonymousInstitution());
installation.Institutions.Add(TestHelper.CreateAnonymousInstitution());
session.Save(installation);

I get the following error:

NHibernate.PropertyValueException: not-null property references a null or transient value.

How to overcome the problem?

Thanks in advance Lukasz Glaz

Answer 1

I believe it's inverse=true that is needed.

HasMany<Institution>(i => i.Institutions)
   .KeyColumnNames.Add("InstallationId")
   .Cascade.All()
   .Inverse();

Or of course add a method in the installation class to handle this explicitly.

public class Installation : Entity<Installation>
{        
    public virtual string Name { get; set; }
    public virtual IList<Institution> Institutions { get; set; }

    public Installation()
    {
        Institutions = new List<Institution>();
    }

    public virtual void AddInstitution(Institution entity)
    {
        entity.Installation = this;
        Institutions.Add(entity);
    }
}

Answer 2

As I can see your Institution class has reference on Installation class. And this reference is set to not null. When you are creating AnonymousInstitution do you set some Installation for it?