No, the reference should be inflated when you access the Post property. On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Richard Brown (gmail) < [email protected]> wrote:
> I take it the reference would inflate when *any* method is called on the > Comment proxy? > (and not just the property accessor) > > > *From:* Ayende Rahien <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Thursday, December 31, 2009 9:32 AM > *To:* nhibernate-development <[email protected]> > *Subject:* [nhibernate-development] Ghost objects > > I am trying to figure out if we can support the following: > > class Comment > { > public virtual Post Post {get;set;} > } > > class Post {} > class Article : Post {} > > And *not* generate a PostProxy for the property, but instead detect the > property access, force a load to return the correct type. > We can do it right now by specifying lazy=false, but that pre-load the > entity, while I would like to try to get it to load only on access time. > > There are several potential problems with this: > a) we need to replace the reference on first access, which means that the > _parent_ must be a proxy as well. > b) we disallow field access entirely. > c) identity map issues? > > other thoughts? >
