Identifying NHibernate proxy classes

Question

I\'m not an NHibernate user; I write a serialization utility library. A user has logged a feature-request that I should handle NHibernate proxy classes, treating them the sa

Answer 1

I'm guessing that you don't really want to access the actual Nhibernate session. This code might better fit your needs:

/// 

/// Returns the real type of the given proxy. If the object is not a proxy, it's normal type is returned.
/// 
internal static Type GetRealType(this object proxy)
{
    if (proxy is INHibernateProxy)
    {
        var lazyInitialiser = ((INHibernateProxy)proxy).HibernateLazyInitializer;
        return lazyInitialiser.PersistentClass;
    }
    else
    {
        return proxy.GetType();
    }
}

Hope that helps.