What I'm trying to come up is something that's expressed like this:
var result = Session.QueryOver<Foo>().OrderBy(f => f.UpdatedAt ?? f.CreatedAt);
Sure enough, this doesn't work. Rough equivalent of this in T-SQL is
... order by coalesce(f.UpdatedAt, f.CreatedAt)
What's the kosher way to do "coalescing" in NHibernate QueryOver?
.OrderBy(Projections.SqlFunction("coalesce",
NHibernateUtil.DateTime,
Projections.Property<Foo>(x => x.UpdatedAt),
Projections.Property<Foo>(x => x.CreatedAt)))
Diego's answer is the way I came up with, but it seemed to be too verbose to me, so I asked a question, and got an excellent answer. Basically, you can register your own extensions and then just do
.OrderBy(f => f.UpdatedAt.IfNull(f.CreatedAt));
where IfNull
is your new extension. I've even submitted an improvement proposal to NH Jira, but got no response yet.
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