How do you map an enum as string in fluent nhibernate?

Question

Is it possible to map an enum as a string using Fluent Nhibernate?

Answer 1

Yes, it does that by default if you just do:

Map(x => x.YourProperty);

Make sure you're using the latest version off the trunk.

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As Yavor Shahpasov pointed out in the comments, in more recent versions you can accomplish the same with:

Map(x => x.Property).CustomType<GenericEnumMapper<YourPropertyEnumType>>();

Answer 2

and there is also the EnumString class you can pass as customType