Can NHibernate persist to flat files instead of database?

Question

Here is a curiousity question. I have an application that must support both flat files and the database as a place to persist data. I was thinking maybe using a .csv or tab-delimited set of files as input ...

Is it possible to use NHibernate to write to do both persistance tasks?

Secondguess

Do the files have to be human readable or is the requirement just to be able to push out to a file as opposed to monolithic db? If human readable isn't necessary i'd suggest SqlLite which NHibernate does support IIRC. – Hove

+1 to Quarrelsome. I was thinking the same thing. – Katykatya

Answer 1

Try using the Jet engine (see this)

Dialect and other nhibernate settings should be the ones for Microsoft Access.

Jeremiad

Answer 2

No not to the best of my knowledge. I have the same requirement and have ended up just using flat XML files and hand rolling all the CRUD.

Just today I did happen to notice this File System Database on codeplex but haven't looked into it properly yet.

Cheatham