I have an abstract class which has two concrete implementations.

I need to be able to retrieve the abstract class because users will only provide an id/code, which is not type specific, however in my service layer (above business layer), I need to be able to determine the type of the abstract class so that I can carry out some conditional logic.

Is there any other way to determine the type of the class, apart from using NHibernate.NHibernateUtil.GetClass()?

The type of the entity at this point when I call GetType is always the abstract type, even though intellisense within the IDE displays the proper concrete type.

well, actually, in some instances it does return the correct type, and other instances it doesn't.

I also find that in some instances I'm able to cast the abstract type to the concrete type, and other times I'm unable to. I can see that the SQL issued for the select includes all of the attributes defined on the concrete implementations.

I'd prefer not to have to let my service layer know about NHibernate.

I think you need something like that:


cya

as mentioned in my post, GetType doesn't return what I'm after.

Anyone?

I'm using the method found here

http://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.php?t=959834

in my DAO for the time being, to cast the INHibernateProxy to it's concrete type, but still returned as it's abstract type, and then in my service layer I can reliably say



but I'm open to other suggestions!