Defining NHibernate Collection Options

Sort

Specifies a sorted collection with natural sort order, or a given comparator class.

NHibernate Tag: sort

Order by

Specifies a table column (or columns) that define the iteration order of the Set or bag, together with an optional asc or desc.

NHibernate Tag: order-by

Access

Specifies the strategy Nhibernate should use for accessing the property value.

NHibernate Tag: access

Cascade

Specifies which operations should be cascaded from the parent object to the associated object.

NHibernate Tag: cascade

Collection type

Specifies a name that indicates the NHibernate type.

NHibernate Tag: type

Batch size

Specifies the batch load size.

NHibernate Tag: batch-size

Not found

Specifies how foreign keys that reference missing rows will be handled: ignore will treat a missing row as a null association.

NHibernate Tag: not-found

Inverse collection

Specifies that the role is the inverse relation of the opposite role.

NHibernate Tag: inverse

Mapping type

Specifies the collection mapping type

NHibernate Tag: Set, Array, Map, or List.