How to map private fields in FluentNHibernate using DefaultAutomappingConfiguration

Question

The guidance given here http://fluentnhibernate.org/blog/2010/05/23/feature-focus-fields.html suggests that from V1.1 the automapping feature of Fluent NHibernate supports mapping to private fields.

So given the following code, NHiberate should be able to map to the myValue field.

public class SomeEntity
{   
   private string myValue;
   public virtual int Id { get; set; }
}

public class DomainAutomappingConfiguration : DefaultAutomappingConfiguration
{
    public override bool ShouldMap(FluentNHibernate.Member member)
    {
        return (member.IsProperty && member.IsPublic && member.CanWrite) ||
               (member.IsField && member.IsPrivate);
     }
 }

However when I run this code and try to map, I get the following exception:

NHibernate.PropertyNotFoundException : Could not find a getter for property 'myValue' in class.....

I am using FluentNHibernate 1.1 and NHibernate 3.0.0.2001

What am I doing wrong?

Michael D. Kirkpatrick Michael D. Kirkpatrick · Accepted Answer · 2011-02-08T20:45:47

Change:

private string myValue;

To:

private string myValue {get;set;}

I am not sure if this will do it for you, but the error you are receiving is the lack of the {get;} when designating the private field. Hopefully this will put you on the right track. I have not tried mapping private fields.

Good luck.

How to map private fields in FluentNHibernate using DefaultAutomappingConfiguration

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