You could use an interceptor, override AfterTransactionBegin, and store the current time somewhere.
I'm also doing auditing with IPostInsert/Delete/Update listeners, but we also have an audit "header" (per transaction or sub-transaction), so I explicitly set that when beginning the transaction. Diego On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 15:01, Michael diSibio <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Diego - how goes it! > > I am writing an audit component by implementing persistence event > listeners (such as IPostInsertEventListener). > The properties of the listener expose the IEventSource which has this > "Timestamp" property. > My goal was: rather than just use "DateTime.Now" within the audit > component as a "TransactionStart" timestamp (which is fine if nothing > else is available) > I thought I could be more specific if NHibernate was tracking the > system time of when the actual ITransaction was instantiated. > Thus, if for some reason the actual transaction is part of a long- > running conversation, the time I capture for audit would be more > accurate, and not represent simply the time of the > Flush() to the database. > Since the documentation says "System time before the start of the > transaction", I thought that was exactly what I was looking for. > > Thanks for looking into it, anyways. > > On Feb 5, 9:14 am, Diego Mijelshon <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Mike! :-) > > > > From reading the source code, it seems like that value is coming from the > > Cache provider, and might mean anything. > > What are you trying to accomplish? > > > > Diego > > > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 17:52, mdisibio <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > The API documentation says: "System time before the start of the > > > transaction." > > > > > I was hoping it was an actual timestamp of when the transaction > > > started, and not a database row timestamp. > > > > > However, when I capture the value (long) and feed it to the DateTime > > > constructor, I get a date value only a few hours from > > > DateTime.MinValue > > > > > Since I could not find any more info via Google, can someone please > > > clarify its use. > > > > > Thanks - Mike > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > > "nhusers" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected]<nhusers%[email protected]> > <nhusers%[email protected]<nhusers%[email protected]> > > > > > . > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/nhusers?hl=en.- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text - > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nhusers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<nhusers%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nhusers?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nhusers" 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/nhusers?hl=en.
