You should consider using event listeners to set your created at, any other audit-style fields you have:
http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2009/04/29/nhibernate-ipreupdateeventlistener-amp-ipreinserteventlistener.aspx On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Mikael Henriksson <mik...@zoolutions.se>wrote: > James was working on moving FNH to a virtual private server I think... He > probably got lost playing games and forgot about it :) > > > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 3:35 AM, Martin From <f...@pc.dk> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I have a base Entity type containing the properties - Id and CreatedAt >> (Datetime). >> In the required default parameterless constructor I always set >> CreatedAt = DateTime.UtcNow; >> >> This works fine and acts like intended when creating new instances of >> my entities for saving etc. >> But when querying objects from the database the parameterless >> constructor is also called and CreatedAt is set. >> >> CreatedAt is overwriten with the data fetched from the database but I >> would like to not set it every time querying an object. >> >> How can I solve this ? >> Is there some smart/clever/secret work around for this? >> >> The best i can come up with is to mark the parameterless constructor >> as protected and not set the CreatedAt property, and then create a >> public constructor with a parameter (that doesnt really matter) that >> can be used when creating new instances of my objects which should be >> saved, but it is a very ugly solution. >> >> >> Is there any problems in setting default values in the constructor for >> properties which is mapped ? >> >> For an example I am wondering if it will be a problem if the CreatedAt >> property is set to be lazyloaded and is never fetched from the >> database before being saved (updated). >> Will nhibernate internally know that the CreatedAt property was >> assigned before the object data was fetched from the database and it >> should not be used when updating? >> >> >> Best regards >> >> Martin >> >> >> ps. www.fluentnhibernate.org just gives me page saying "It works! This >> is the default web page for this server. The web server software is >> running but no content has been added, yet." in case project owners/ >> administrator should look here and isnt aware of it. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Fluent NHibernate" group. >> To post to this group, send email to fluent-nhibern...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> fluent-nhibernate+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<fluent-nhibernate%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/fluent-nhibernate?hl=en. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Fluent NHibernate" group. > To post to this group, send email to fluent-nhibern...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > fluent-nhibernate+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<fluent-nhibernate%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/fluent-nhibernate?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Fluent NHibernate" group. To post to this group, send email to fluent-nhibern...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to fluent-nhibernate+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fluent-nhibernate?hl=en.
