Getting NHibernate to generate a HiLo string ID

We‘ve got a large system that‘s loosely bound to its data source (Navision) via Unity - we‘re getting the opportunity to swap it out and have our own database.

So we‘ve had a look around and really like the look of Fluent NHibernate - we‘re trying to get a proof of concept going and swap out a couple of the services.

We want to use NHibernates HiLo algorithm - Unfortunately we‘ve inherited string ID‘s from Navision which prefixs its ID‘s (example COL00001) so to match the Interface we need to use string Id‘s.

Does anyone know how I‘d get something like ...

Id(x => x.ID).GeneratedBy.HiLo("100");

working where ID is a string? We‘re currently getting Identity must be int, long etc

Thanks,

Andy

------ Update ------

I tried the example in the article suggested but this functionality has been removed from later versions of Fluent NHibernate - there is however a .Custom - but I can‘t seem to get it working!

public class ManufacturerMap : ClassMap<Manufacturer>
{
    public ManufacturerMap()
    {
        Id(x => x.ID).GeneratedBy.Custom(typeof(StringTableHiLoGenerator));
        Map(x => x.Name);
    }
}


public class StringTableHiLoGenerator : TableHiLoGenerator
{
    public override object Generate(ISessionImplementor session, object obj)
    {
        return base.Generate(session, obj).ToString();
    }
}

public class ManufacturerMap : ClassMap<Manufacturer>
{
    public ManufacturerMap()
    {
        Id(x => x.ID).GeneratedBy.Custom<StringTableHiLoGenerator>(a => a.AddParam("max_lo", Nexus3General.HiLoGeneratorMaxLoSize.ToString()));
        Map(x => x.Name);
    }
}

public class StringTableHiLoGenerator : TableHiLoGenerator
{
    public override object Generate(ISessionImplementor session, object obj)
    {
        return base.Generate(session, obj).ToString();
    }

    public override void Configure(IType type, System.Collections.Generic.IDictionary<string, string> parms, NHibernate.Dialect.Dialect dialect)
    {
        base.Configure(NHibernateUtil.Int32, parms, dialect);
    }
}