FieldAttribute API Document

Maps a standard column of the table.

Example

In the following example, the column is also called 'name', so you don't have to specify.


public class Blog : ActiveRecordBase
{
    [Field]
    string name;

Initializes a new instance of the Castle.ActiveRecord.FieldAttribute class.

Initializes a new instance of the Castle.ActiveRecord.FieldAttribute class.

Parameter	Description
`column`	The column name.

Initializes a new instance of the Castle.ActiveRecord.FieldAttribute class.

Parameter	Description
`column`	The column name
`type`	The column type.

Name	Type	Description
`NotNull`	`Boolean`	Gets or sets a value indicating whether the column allows null values
`Length`	`Int32`	Gets or sets the length of this column. char(10), etc
`Column`	`String`	Gets or sets the column name
`UniqueKey`	`String`	From NHibernate documentation: A unique-key attribute can be used to group columns in a single unit key constraint.
`Index`	`String`	From NHibernate documentation: specifies the name of a (multi-column) index
`SqlType`	`String`	From NHibernate documentation: overrides the default column type
`Check`	`String`	From NHibernate documentation: create an SQL check constraint on either column or table
`Update`	`Boolean`	Set to `false` to ignore this field when updating entities of this ActiveRecord class.
`Insert`	`Boolean`	Set to `false` to ignore this field when inserting entities of this ActiveRecord class.
`Unique`	`Boolean`	Gets or sets a value indicating whether this `Castle.ActiveRecord.FieldAttribute` is unique.
`Formula`	`String`	Gets or sets the formula used to calculate this field
`ColumnType`	`String`	Gets or sets the type of the column.
`Access`	`PropertyAccess`	Gets or sets the access strategy for this property
`CustomAccess`	`String`	Gets or sets the custom access strategy
`AccessString`	`String`	Gets the access strategy string for NHibernate's mapping.