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Hibernate version: 1.2.0

Hi,

Quick question - I realise to use lazy loading you need to declare properties as "virtual". However, if I am trying to map to a class which inherits from a class which has at least one property which is not marked virtual is there any way I can ignore it. I have tried declaring a property of the same name as virtual and used the "new" keyword to hide it but I am getting the same error as if I hadn't declare this.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Stuart Jones

You will have to disable the proxy validator, I guess... Set hibernate.use_proxy_validator to false.

Thanks. Is this set in the web.config or can it be set on a per class basis?

Yes, it's a configuration option (settable in either web.config or hibernate.cfg.xml). It's not possible to set it on per-class basis.

Thanks. What is the downside of implementing this? It sounds as if it might be safer to simply turn off lazy loading for the class in question.

Is this a bug however, as perhaps it shouldn't be checking properties that can't be mapped to as they are hidden?

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In reality, You can not actually "hide" the property - it will remain accessible from code.

And from lazy loading point of view, the fact wether proeprty is mapped or not is unimportant. Code behind public instance method/property might (and propably does) access the persitent state of object, directly or indirectly. So the object should be initialized before any public method is executed. And for that, the member must be virtual.

Gert