Fixed working with time type in Fluent Nhibernate "Cannot apply object of type" System.DateTime "to type" NHibernate.Type.TimeType "

I founded NHibernate for several built-in types that are not present in C#

, but are present in some of the SGBDs.

Now I have the following:

public class TimeSlot : EntityBase
{            
    public virtual NHibernate.Type.TimeType FromTime { get; set; }
    public virtual NHibernate.Type.TimeType ToTime { get; set; }
}

public class TimeSlotMap : ClassMap<TimeSlot>
{
    public TimeSlotMap()
    {
        Id(c => c.Id).GeneratedBy.Identity();
        Map(c => c.FromTime);
        Map(c => c.ToTime);                     
    }
}

      

In MSSQL, this table is similar to the attached image enter image description here

Now when I try to query this table, I get the following exception:

Cannot overlay object of type 'System.DateTime' on type 'NHibernate.Type.TimeType

What am I doing wrong? And how does Fluent NHibernate work with the date type?

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I would suggest using TimeSpan

for DB typeTime

public class TimeSlot : EntityBase
{
    public virtual TimeSpan FromTime { get; set; }
    public virtual TimeSpan ToTime { get; set; }
}

      

And then NHibernate has a special type to handle this trick:

Map(c => c.FromTime)
   .Type<NHibernate.Type.TimeAsTimeSpanType>();
...

      

This will allow you to work with the .NET native "type time" -

MSDN - TimeSpan Structure

Represents a time interval.

What is NHibernate.Type.TimeType then?

If we prefer to use DateTime

which NHibernate can use to express time, we should do it like this:



public class TimeSlot : EntityBase
{
    public virtual DateTime FromTime { get; set; }
    public virtual DateTime ToTime { get; set; }
}

      

And now we can use the question type - NHibernate.Type.TimeType

Map(c => c.FromTime)
   .Type<NHibernate.Type.TimeType>();
...

      

What's the description:

/// <summary>
/// Maps a <see cref="System.DateTime" /> Property to an DateTime column that only stores the 
/// Hours, Minutes, and Seconds of the DateTime as significant.
/// Also you have for <see cref="DbType.Time"/> handling, the NHibernate Type <see cref="TimeAsTimeSpanType"/>,
/// the which maps to a <see cref="TimeSpan"/>.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// <para>
/// This defaults the Date to "1753-01-01" - that should not matter because
/// using this Type indicates that you don't care about the Date portion of the DateTime.
/// </para>
/// <para>
/// A more appropriate choice to store the duration/time is the <see cref="TimeSpanType"/>.
/// The underlying <see cref="DbType.Time"/> tends to be handled differently by different
/// DataProviders.
/// </para>
/// </remarks>
[Serializable]
public class TimeType : PrimitiveType, IIdentifierType, ILiteralType

      

Also check:

Date and time support in NHibernate

... Time-bound DbTypes only store the time, not the date. There is no Time class in .NET, so NHibernate uses DateTime with date component set to 1753-01-01, minimum value for SQL time, or System.TimeSpan - depending on the selected DbType ...

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