As I can see you have uni-direction many-to-one relation. So firstly you have to write following override:
public class DeviceRecipientOverride : IAutoMappingOverride<DeviceRecipient>
{
public void Override(AutoMapping<DeviceRecipient> mapping)
{
mapping.References(x => x.LastAttemptedDevice)
.NotFound.Ignore(); // this doing what you want.
}
}
Secondly you could convert it to automapping convention, if you have more places with this behavior.
public class ManyToOneNullableConvention : IReferenceConvention
{
public void Apply(IManyToOneInstance instance)
{
var inspector = (IManyToOneInspector) instance;
// also there you could check the name of the reference like following:
// inspector.Name == LastAttemptedDevice
if (inspector.Nullable)
{
instance.NotFound.Ignore();
}
}
}
EDIT:
From the NHibernate reference
not-found (optional - defaults to exception): Specifies how foreign
keys that reference missing rows will be handled: ignore will treat a
missing row as a null association.
So when you set not-found="ignore"
SchemaExport/SchemaUpdate will just not create the FK for you. So if you have the FK then you need to delete it or set OnDelete behavior of the FK to Set Null
. Assuming that you are using Microsoft Sql Server:
ALTER TABLE [DeviceRecipient]
ADD CONSTRAINT [FK_DeviceRecipient_LastAttemptedDevice]
FOREIGN KEY ([LastAttemptedDevice_ID])
REFERENCES [UserDevice]
ON DELETE SET NULL