Hibernate version: NHibernate1.2.0Beta

Name and version of the database you are using: SQL Server 2000

The generated SQL (show_sql=true): n/a

Is there any way to tell nHibernate not to persist specific properties of an object in certain cases?

I have an object that I want to be able to persist all fields on myself, but I also expose this object to the outside world. I don't want to persist all properties of the object when it is coming in from the outside.

Is this possible without making an entirely new object?

You can do it in .Net 2.0 by using properties - when you create the properties you can specify an internal protected setter and a public getter.

This doesn't change the persistence mechanism, just the access to changing the values in the persisted object.

Symon.

Symon,

I guess you would try implementing a custom IInterceptor class. You tell NHibernate session object which properties are dirty in FindDirty(). In other word, you tell NHibernate session that the properties you don't want to persist to be "clean".

It should work but I can't tell if it is a good design.

Canton

thanks for the ideas