Hibernate version:
1.2.0GA

Name and version of the database you are using:
Oracle 10g

I'm building an AJAX web application with NHibernate. For the client-server communication, I'm using a library called JSON.Net (javascript object notation). For most of what I'm doing, this works fine. However, when doing a db update, like this:



I'm having problems, because now the record object isn't my plain-old object, it's a DynamicProxy object, and the serializer chokes on it (self-referencing loops with the Assembly and Module information that's included).

I've tried working around this by changing this line to:


and also


Neither of these work. (The Clone method is basically implemented as return this.MemberwiseClone()).

I've also tried just skipping the return of the updated record to the client, and forcing the client to reload the data in a separate server call, but this sometimes I get the DynamicProxy object back even without doing a db update first. It's this situation that has become the real showstopper.

So my question is, is there a way to force NHibernate to return the POCO class. Is there something similar to NHibernateUtils.GetClass that will do it for me? Or does someone have any better idea on how to not get the proxy object?

My only other solution is to re-write significant amounts of the JSON serializer, and even then I'm not sure where to begin.

Thanks

I don't think there is a way of doing what you want to do, however somebody else maybe be able to tell you otherwise. We have multi layer architecture, one layer of which is a "translation layer". The translation layer converts the NHibernate entities into serializable objects this both gets round the problem you are having, enables us to only send across the wire the data that is needed by the front-end and enables us to convert the data into a structure that is more convenient for the front-end.

I am told this works:

Thanks, that has done it.