how to achieve table per concrete class when base class is abstract in fluent nhibernate?

Question

i have the following scenario

public abstract class BaseClass
{
  public virtual int Id {get; set};
  public virtual string Name {get; set;}
}

public class FirstSubClass : BaseClass
{
   //properties and behaviour here
}

public class SecondSubClass : BaseClass
{
  //properties of SecondSubclass Here
}

public class ProcessStep
{
   public virtual IList<BaseClass> ContentElements {get; set;}  
}

for mapping i have used following code snippet :-

this._sessionFactory =
                          Fluently.Configure().Database(SQLiteConfiguration.Standard
                          .ConnectionString(@"Data Source=SqliteTestSqlDataAccess.s3db;    Version=3; New=True; Pooling=True; Max Pool Size=1;"))
                          .Mappings(m => m.AutoMappings.Add(AutoMap.Assembly(assemblyWithDomainClasses).Conventions.Add(DefaultCascade.All())))
                          .ExposeConfiguration(BuildSchema)
                          .BuildSessionFactory();

By default fluent will ignore the abstract base class that is BaseClass. But as in the class ProcessStep there is property ContentElements which returns IList , i am getting an exception:- NHibernate.MappingException : Association references unmapped class: BaseClass

If i include the base class using the IncludeBase(typeof(BaseClass)) then it works fine but it creates a table for BaseClass and Derived classes and the records are linked with FK-PK relationship(table per subclass). What i want to achieve is table per concrete class. that is each derive class will have it's own table where there will all properties of derived class + properties in the base class. Any idea how to achieve it?

Answer 1

Since I haven't seen your mapping, let me provide mine. You could achieve this by doing like this

public class BaseClassMap:ClassMap<BaseClass>
{
    public BaseClassMap()
    {
        /*
         * Identity generator can't be native because subclass objects should be unique
         * So use HiLo or Guid or other generators which will generate unique id on the child tables
         */
        Id(x => x.Id).GeneratedBy.Guid(); 
        Map(x => x.Name);
        UseUnionSubclassForInheritanceMapping(); // This is important - uses union-subclass mappings for the derived classes
    }
}

public class FirstSubClassMap : SubclassMap<FirstSubClass>
{
    public FirstSubClassMap()
    {
        Table("FirstSubClassTable");
        // Map properties for FirstSubClass
    }
}

public class SecondSubClassMap : SubclassMap<SecondSubClass>
{
    public SecondSubClassMap()
    {
        Table("SecondSubClassTable");
        // Map properties for SecondSubClass
    }
}