NHibernate filter collection by subcollection items - nhibernate

Question

Health record may have Symptom, which consists of some Words. (ER diagram.)
What I need: by given set of Words return Health records with corresponding Symptoms.
I have this code:
public IEnumerable<HealthRecord> GetByWords(IEnumerable<Word> words)
{
var wordsIds = words.Select(w => w.Id).ToList();
Word word = null;
HealthRecord hr = null;
ISession session = NHibernateHelper.GetSession();
{
return session.QueryOver<HealthRecord>(() => hr)
.WhereRestrictionOn(() => hr.Symptom).IsNotNull()
.Inner.JoinAlias(() => hr.Symptom.Words, () => word)
.WhereRestrictionOn(() => word.Id).IsIn(wordsIds)
.List();
}
}

Answer 1

What we should use here is: INNER SELECT, i.e. subquery. We can do that even with many-to-many maping, but the performance will suffer.
The (easier, my prefered) way would be to not use many-to-many mapping. Because with explicitly mapped pairing object SymptomWord, querying would be much more easier.
Word word = null;
Symptom symptom = null;
// the sub SELECT returning column Symptom.Id
var subq = QueryOver.Of<Symptom>(() => symptom)
// just symptoms refering the searched words
.Inner.JoinAlias(() => symptom.Words, () => word)
.WhereRestrictionOn(() => word.Id).IsIn(wordsIds)
// the result of inner select is
.Select(s => symptom.Id);
And in the next step we can use it for filtering:
var list = session
// just query over HealthRecord here
.QueryOver<HealthRecord>()
.WithSubquery
// the ID of referenced Symptom is in that table
.WhereProperty(hr => hr.Symptom.Id)
// and will be filtered with our subquery
.In(subq)
.List<HelthRecord>();
return list;
That should work, also check some similar issue here:
Query on HasMany reference
NHibernate Lazy Loading Limited by Earlier Criteria
Some hint how to re-map many-to-many (because with a pairing table mapped as an object, we can construct similar and simplified construct, resulting in better SQL Statement)
Nhibernate: How to represent Many-To-Many relationships with One-to-Many relationships?