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

NHibernate 2.1+ allows the dynamic proxy provider to be set through configuration. The implementations that I'm aware of are Castle (default), LinFu, and Spring. NHibernate does not require an interface or attribute. I think this makes it fairly impossible to reliably detect if an object is a proxy.

As s1mm0t answered, creating the actual type on deserialization is fine.