Eager fetch support for ICriteria

[Stuart Carnie]

Hi all,

I've created a feature request for adding eager fetching of lazy loaded properties to ICriteria.  I suspect it's a trigger on the loader, so it shouldn't be too hard.  My recommendation would be to add a new method, FetchAllProperties to ICriteria.  

Thoughts and feedback welcomed.

[Stuart Carnie]

I've been working on this feature, and decided to follow an approach more consistent with the SetFetchMode API.

ICriteria has two new methods, 

• SetLazyPropertyFetchMode(LazyPropertyFetchMode mode)
  
• Sets the fetch mode for the current ICriteria instance
• SetLazyPropertyFetchMode(string associationPath, LazyPropertyFetchMode mode)
  
• Sets the fetch mode for the specified association path

The LazyPropertyFetchMode enum is defined as follows:

public enum LazyPropertyFetchMode

{

/// <summary>

/// The default fetch mode, which is lazy

/// </summary>

Default,

/// <summary>

/// Eager fetch lazy properties

/// </summary>

Select,

}

I have a working implementation with various unit tests.  I will explore my implementation a bit further and then push my branch up for review.

Cheers,

Stuart