Hi all

It may be a very big breaking change!

Best Regards, Alex


2012/11/28 Patrick Earl <[email protected]>

> This sounds like a better alternative to me... what think others?
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 7:16 AM, Fabian Schmied 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Just a comment: you could use
>> System.Runtime.Serialization.FormatterServices.GetUninitializedObject
>> to create an instantiate a type (verifiably) without calling its
>> constructor.
>>
>> On Tuesday, November 27, 2012 9:24:30 AM UTC+1, Richard (gmail) wrote:
>>
>>>   Hi Patrick,
>>>
>>> I made the change to make the generated assemblies pass PeVerify:
>>> https://nhibernate.jira.com/**browse/NH-2857<https://nhibernate.jira.com/browse/NH-2857>
>>>
>>>
>>> I’d agree with the argument that the (default) constructor that NH uses
>>> shouldn’t be doing anything unusual, but obviously we can’t enforce that.
>>>
>>> If there is now a situation that we can get a stack overflow using
>>> (just) NHibernateUtil.IsInitialized, then that should probably be fixed.
>>> I’m not so sure about casting the object directly to an IProxy and relying
>>> on the underlying implementation of Interceptors though – it’s not clear to
>>> me how someone would decide what is acceptable/reasonable external
>>> behaviour for that.  In addition, I think the original Castle proxy would
>>> have behaved like this too?
>>>
>>> Also, if you mark the default constructor as private, then the proxy has
>>> no choice but to bypass it (and behave the way it did prior to that fix).
>>> Does that help?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>     Richard
>>>
>>>
>>>  *From:* Patrick Earl
>>> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 27, 2012 4:57 AM
>>> *To:* nhibernate-development
>>> *Subject:* [nhibernate-development] Calling base constructor in proxies
>>>
>>> I noticed (due to a stack overflow) that proxies now call their base
>>> constructor.  That behaviour is a little scary to me since proxies are not
>>> real objects and the real objects might have interaction with the world
>>> that isn't supposed to happen with proxy objects.  I suppose the argument
>>> could be made that the constructor should not be doing anything remotely
>>> interesting, but on the other hand, constructors should produce objects
>>> that don't need additional initialization.
>>>
>>> The stack overflow itself was from an interesting combination of changes
>>> in the latest NH.  First, it calls the base constructor.  Second, the
>>> dynamic proxy was changed to call "base.Method()" if the interceptor was
>>> not set.  Since there is no "base.Method()" I assume that it ends up
>>> calling the same method again, resulting in the mysterious stack overflow.
>>>
>>> Basically my code was doing something like NHibernateUtil.IsInitialized(
>>> **a) and when it went to get the HibernateLazyInitializer property it
>>> overflowed the stack.  I ended up fixing this by changing my condition as
>>> follows:
>>>
>>>        a is IProxy && (a as IProxy).Interceptor != null &&
>>> NHibernateUtil.IsInitialized(**a)
>>>
>>> Perhaps the code to check for uninitialized proxies inside of
>>> NHibernateUtil needs to be improved.  Perhaps a flag could be present to
>>> disable calling the base constructor when not needed for a medium trust
>>> environment.  Thoughts on this interesting situation?  Has anyone else run
>>> into problems related to calling the base constructor?
>>>
>>>        Patrick Earl
>>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, November 27, 2012 9:24:30 AM UTC+1, Richard (gmail) wrote:
>>>
>>>   Hi Patrick,
>>>
>>> I made the change to make the generated assemblies pass PeVerify:
>>> https://nhibernate.jira.com/**browse/NH-2857<https://nhibernate.jira.com/browse/NH-2857>
>>>
>>> I’d agree with the argument that the (default) constructor that NH uses
>>> shouldn’t be doing anything unusual, but obviously we can’t enforce that.
>>>
>>> If there is now a situation that we can get a stack overflow using
>>> (just) NHibernateUtil.IsInitialized, then that should probably be fixed.
>>> I’m not so sure about casting the object directly to an IProxy and relying
>>> on the underlying implementation of Interceptors though – it’s not clear to
>>> me how someone would decide what is acceptable/reasonable external
>>> behaviour for that.  In addition, I think the original Castle proxy would
>>> have behaved like this too?
>>>
>>> Also, if you mark the default constructor as private, then the proxy has
>>> no choice but to bypass it (and behave the way it did prior to that fix).
>>> Does that help?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>     Richard
>>>
>>>
>>>  *From:* Patrick Earl
>>> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 27, 2012 4:57 AM
>>> *To:* nhibernate-development
>>> *Subject:* [nhibernate-development] Calling base constructor in proxies
>>>
>>> I noticed (due to a stack overflow) that proxies now call their base
>>> constructor.  That behaviour is a little scary to me since proxies are not
>>> real objects and the real objects might have interaction with the world
>>> that isn't supposed to happen with proxy objects.  I suppose the argument
>>> could be made that the constructor should not be doing anything remotely
>>> interesting, but on the other hand, constructors should produce objects
>>> that don't need additional initialization.
>>>
>>> The stack overflow itself was from an interesting combination of changes
>>> in the latest NH.  First, it calls the base constructor.  Second, the
>>> dynamic proxy was changed to call "base.Method()" if the interceptor was
>>> not set.  Since there is no "base.Method()" I assume that it ends up
>>> calling the same method again, resulting in the mysterious stack overflow.
>>>
>>> Basically my code was doing something like NHibernateUtil.IsInitialized(
>>> **a) and when it went to get the HibernateLazyInitializer property it
>>> overflowed the stack.  I ended up fixing this by changing my condition as
>>> follows:
>>>
>>>        a is IProxy && (a as IProxy).Interceptor != null &&
>>> NHibernateUtil.IsInitialized(**a)
>>>
>>> Perhaps the code to check for uninitialized proxies inside of
>>> NHibernateUtil needs to be improved.  Perhaps a flag could be present to
>>> disable calling the base constructor when not needed for a medium trust
>>> environment.  Thoughts on this interesting situation?  Has anyone else run
>>> into problems related to calling the base constructor?
>>>
>>>        Patrick Earl
>>>
>>
>

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