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Hibernate version: 2.0.1.GA

Mapping documents: Attributes

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In my entities I map a integer property for my foreign key columns. That works fine.

Currently I also map a property of entity type for the same foreign key columns. My many-to-one mapping is setup to Lazy load. But this property and mapping is really only there so I can build ICriteria queries that include the associated entities.

I need to map my many-to-one associations such that I can build ICriteria queries over them, but I don't want NHibernate to ever load the associated type into my propery. I don't want NHibernate to either load them Lazy or Eager. I have dependency injected my entity properties so that they can load themself either using a factoried DAO (business tier) or a factoried WCF Proxy (client teir).

I suppose I can can use HQL queries allow searches on associated entities, but also to prevent their loading. But I already have a nice abstraction layer that makes it easy for my developers build a search using property paths. And it was easy to directly map from my abstraction to Restrictions.

I would hate to have to start building HQL/SQL dynamically.

Right now, on my entity property many-to-one associations, I have insert="false" and update="false" and on the corresponding integer property I have the inverse.

Is there anything semantically equivalent to load="false" in a many-to-one mapping?