I decided to take a look at what I would take to implement static proxies (via Post Sharp) in NHibernate. The following is my implementation log.

• 09:30 PM - Started to work on post sharp interceptors for NHibernate
• 09:35 PM - Needs to learn how I can implement additional interfaces with PostSharp.
• 10:00 PM - Implemented ICollection<T> wrapping for entities
• 10:35 PM - Proxy Factory Factory can now control proxy validation
• 11:15 PM - Modified NHibernate to accept static proxies
• 11:28 PM - Saving Works
• 11:35 PM - Deleting Works
• 11:50 PM - Rethought the whole approach and implemented this using method interception instead of field interception
• 11:58 PM - Access ID without loading from DB implemented
• 12:01 AM - Checking IsInitialized works
• 12:13 AM - After midnight and I am debugging interceptions issues.
• 12:15 AM - It is considered bad to kill the constructor, I feel.
• 12:16 AM - No one needs a constructor anyway
• 12:30 AM - Realized that I can't spell my own name
• 12:34 AM - Resorting to Console.Write debugging
• 12:40 AM - Wrote my own lazy initializer
• 12:42 AM - Realized that we can't handle lazy loading without forwarding to a second instance, need to see how we can capture references to the this parameter using PostSharp.
• 12;45 AM - I think I realized what went wrong
• 12:55 AM - Lazy loading for non virtual property references works!
• 12:57 AM - Constructors are back
• 12:59 AM - Lazy loading for calling non virtual methods works!

The first thing that I have to say is wow Post Sharp rocks! And I mean that as someone who is doing AOP for a long while, and has implemented some not insignificant parts of Castle.DynamicProxy. Leaving aside the amount of power that it gives you, PostSharp simplicity is simply amazing, wow!

The second is that while things are working, it is not even an alpha release. What we have right now is, literally, one evening's hacking.

What we have now is:

• Removed the requirement for virtual methods
• Removed the requirement for set to be an instance of Iesi.Collections.ISet<T>, now you can use ICollection<T> and HashSet<T>.
• Probably broken a lot of things

Consider this a proof of concept, as you can see, it takes time to implements those things, and currently I am doing it at the expense of time better spent sleeping. I started this because I wanted to get relax up from a 12 hours coding day.

If you have interest in this, please contribute to this by testing the code and seeing what breaks it. There are a bunch of TODO there that I would appreciate a second pair of eyes looking over.

You can get the code here: https://nhibernate.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/nhibernate/branches/static-proxies

Note that you need to reset the project post build action to where you have PostSharp installed.

Oh, and I left a joke there, see if you can find it.