Hello.

If I'm not mistaken, all the entity classes need to have a default constructor so that they're initialized by NHibernate. I was wondering if there's anything I can do to intercept entity creation. I'm asking this because I have at least one entity which can't have a default constructor since it needs to receive a reference to another object in order to work correctly.

ok, I can make it have a default constructor and an internal property which could be used to pass that a reference; however, I'd prefer not to change my domain model and intercept object creation so that I'd return an "initialized" entity. is this possible?

You can use an Interceptor:

http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/nhibernate/1.2/reference/en/html/manipulatingdata.html#manipulatingdata-interceptors

There you can override the Instantiate method:

object Instantiate( Type clazz, object id )

and create the class yourself.

Thanks again!

that's really what I needed :)

Hello again.

hum...it works though I still need to add a default constructor. Anyway, since I'm able to make it private, using the interceptor works really well!

thanks again.