Fluent NHibernate mappings for localization - nhibernate

Question

I am trying to build a Database from NHibernate mappings and have run into a problem.
I have many classes with localized string values:
public class MyClass1 {
public virtual int Id { get; set; }
public virtual ShortString Name { get; set; }
public virtual LongString Description { get; set; }
}
public class MyClass2 {
public virtual int Id { get; set; }
public virtual ShortString Name { get; set; }
public virtual LongString Description { get; set; }
}
and Languages like
public class Language {
public virtual string Code { get; set }
public virtual string Name { get; set }
}
My ShortString and LongString classes both look the same:
public class ShortString {
public virtual int Id { get; set; }
public virtual IDictionary<Language, string> Values { get; set; }
}
What I want to achieve are two tables (ShortString and LongString) looking like this:
TABLE ShortString
-----------------
Id (int)
LanguageCode (nvarchar(8))
Value (nvarchar(256)) (or ntext for the LongString Table)
...with Id AND LanguageCode as primary keys and a ForeignKey to the Language Table.
And in the MyClass1 and MyClass2 tables, I want to have NameId (int) and DescriptionId (int) columns mapped to ShortString and LongString tables respectively.
I am totally stuck. How can I achieve this?

Answer 1

Maybe you could ditch short and long string altogether
public class MyClass1 {
public virtual int Id { get; set; }
public virtual IDictionary<Language, string> Name { get; set; }
public virtual IDictionary<Language, string> Description { get; set; }
}
public class MyClass2 {
public virtual int Id { get; set; }
public virtual IDictionary<Language, string> Name { get; set; }
public virtual IDictionary<Language, string> Description { get; set; }
}
and use the folling Mapping
public class MyClass1Map : ClassMap<MyClass1>
{
public MyClass1Map()
{
[...]
HasMany(mc => mc.Name)
.Table("ShortString")
.KeyColumn("id")
.AsEntityMap("language_id")
.Element("value")
HasMany(mc => mc.Description)
.Table("LongString")
.KeyColumn("id")
.AsEntityMap("language_id")
.Element("value", e => e.Length(1000))
}
}
I cant test it right now so there might be tweaking nessesary