when you fetch an employee, department comes as a proxy, and that
proxy does have the id property which maps to
user_table.department_id_field

On Sep 17, 3:25 pm, Doug Swisher <[email protected]> wrote:
> To optimize a bit of code, I'd like to be able to fetch the value of a
> foreign key without actually doing the lookup on the foreign table.
> The relations are all marked as lazy.  Is this possible?
>
> As an example, I have an employee record that belongs to a department,
> as shown below:
>
>     [ActiveRecord(Lazy = true)]
>     public class Employee
>     {
>         [PrimaryKey]
>         public virtual Int64 Id { get; set; }
>
>         [Property(Length = 100)]
>         public virtual string Name { get; set; }
>
>         [BelongsTo(Lazy = FetchWhen.OnInvoke)]
>         public virtual Department Department { get; set; }
>     }
>
> When I do a Find and pull an Employee out of the database, I'd like to
> be able to pull the ID of the department out of the Employee record
> without actually loading the Department.  The following snippet will
> work:
>
>     var id = employee.Department.Id;
>
> but that lazy-loads the Department, and I don't want the performance
> hit.
>
> I've looked a teeny bit at interceptors and event listeners, but those
> seem to be called after I call Save(), which is too late in my case.
>
> Is there a way to do this?
>
> Thanks in advance for any assistance.
>
> Cheers,
> -Doug
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