Hi,

I'm having a problem finding the type of my joined subclasses.

I have two subclasses, and one parent class. For example, I have one class Pets, and two joined subclasses: Dogs, and Cats.

my problem is that the proxy is creating a culmination of all these classes, so if I write:

returns true AND

also returns true

The only way to really tell is to look at the properties that Dogs and Cats dont have in common, if the object is a Cat, the Dog properties will throw errors if I try to access them. But this is pretty sloppy. How can I ask Nhibernate what the underlying type of my joined subclass is?

You probably need to create interfaces for the proxies.

Right, if I create the same concept with these classes as, instead, interfaces, and say



returns true for both IDog and ICat, because NHibernate creates a weird proxy superclass that is the culmination of Pets, Dogs, and Cats properties, all combined.

I suppose this is my real question and issue. If I had another joined subclass, say lizards, the object would contain all the properties of DOG, CAT, PET, and LIZARD!

The only real way to tell what is the real type of the object is to look at the properties exclusive to a cat, or dog, and see if accessing them doesn't throw an exception. For example, if I say


but this is hacky and not cool.