nhibernate-projections

Can someone better explain what ‘Projections’ are in nHibernate?

April 8, 2024 by Tarik

Here’s a practical example. Let’s say that you have an online store and one of your domain classes is a Brand like “Samsung”. This class has a boatload of properties associated with it, perhaps an integer Identity, a Name, a free-text Description field, a reference to a Vendor object, and so on. Now let’s say … Read more

When to use Hibernate projections?

May 6, 2023 by Tarik

They’re not mutually exclusive, you can use both at the same time. Projections are generally used in the context of some Criteria. To put it simple, Hibernate Projections are used in order to query only a subset of the attributes of an entity or group of entities you’re querying with Criteria. You can also use … Read more