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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Castle Project Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/castle-project-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
