NHibernate interceptor magic tricks, the example

Posted on February 24, 2011 · 7 mins read · tagged with: #Unity #Unity container

Below, you can find the final example of working interceptor, which uses some methods described in text of the last few blog entries (1, 2, 3, 4 and 5). Scan the example and go below to get some explanation about it!

public class ExampleInterceptor : EmptyInterceptor
{
	private const int MaxStatements = 50;
	private static readonly ILog Logger = LogManager.GetLogger(typeof(UpdateInterceptor));

	private readonly InterfaceFinder _interfaceFinder;
	private readonly IUnityContainer _container;
	private ISession _session;

	private int _statementCount;

	public UpdateInterceptor(IUnityContainer container, InterfaceFinder interfaceFinder)
	{
		_container = container;
		_interfaceFinder = interfaceFinder;
	}

	public override void PostFlush(ICollection entities)
	{
		if (_session.Transaction == null)
		{
			throw new InvalidOperationException("Use transactions!");
		}
		base.PostFlush(entities);
	}

	public override void SetSession(ISession session)
	{
		base.SetSession(session);
		_session = session;
	}

	public override string GetEntityName(object entity)
	{
		if (entity == null)
		{
			return null;
		}

		var interfaceType = _interfaceFinder.GetDeepestInterface(entity);

		if (interfaceType == null)
		{
			return null;
		}

		return interfaceType.FullName;
	}

	public override SqlString OnPrepareStatement(SqlString sql)
	{
		if (_statementCount++ == MaxStatements)
		{
			Logger.WarnFormat("Max number of statements exceeded");
		}

		return base.OnPrepareStatement(sql);
	}

	public override object Instantiate(string clazz, EntityMode entityMode, object id)
	{
		if (entityMode == EntityMode.Poco)
		{
			var sessionFactory = _session.SessionFactory;
			var metadata = sessionFactory.GetAllClassMetadata()[clazz];
			var type = metadata.GetMappedClass(entityMode);

			if (type != null)
			{
				var instance = _container.Resolve(type);
				var classMetadata = sessionFactory.GetClassMetadata(clazz);

				classMetadata.SetIdentifier(instance, id, entityMode);

				return instance;
			}
		}

		return null;
	}
}

The constructor

As you’ve noticed, there is a dependency injection in here! Two arguments are: unity container instance; interface finder, which allows you to use interfaces with their implementation hierarchies. About the second, you can read here and here.

Post flush

does nothing more than ensuring that you’re running it in a transaction. Yep, one for all, all for one!

SetSession

remembers the session instance in a field.

GetEntityName

implementation indicates that there are some interfaces mapped, for instance IA and IB : IA. It allows the most nested interface to be easily find for the object type.

OnPrepareStatement

preserves a sane number of statements per session (hence, per request, because session per request scenario is considered).

Instantiate

is the final method. It uses the passed container to create an instance of the passed class. Having interfaces mapped, it’s must have since you cannot call new for interface :P

Unity registration Having this interceptor we need a nice and easy way of registering any interceptor (which type is hold in _interceptorType field) in the container. That’s performed by the following unity extension:

public class NhUnityContainerExtension : UnityContainerExtension
{
	protected override void Initialize()
	{
		// ...
		// save configuration to container for any later use
		Context.Container.RegisterInstanceWithSingletonLifetimeManager(cfg);

		// build factory and register interceptor
		var factory = cfg.BuildSessionFactory();
		Context.Container.RegisterInstanceWithSingletonLifetimeManager(factory);
		Context.Container.RegisterTypeWithPerRequestLifetimeManager(typeof(IInterceptor), _interceptorType);

		var key =  NamedTypeBuildKey.Make<ISession>();
		// setup nhibernate session build plan policy
		Context.
			Policies.
			Set<IBuildPlanPolicy>(
				new DelegateBuildPlanPolicy(
					ctx =>
							{
								// create interceptor already registered
								var interceptor = BuilderContext.NewBuildUp<IInterceptor>(ctx);
								var buildUpFactory =
									BuilderContext.NewBuildUp<ISessionFactory>(ctx);
								return buildUpFactory.OpenSession(interceptor);
							}),
				key);

		// setup lifetime policy
		Context.
			Policies.
			Set<ILifetimePolicy>(CreatePerRequestLifeTimeManager(), key);
	}

	private LifetimeManager CreatePerRequestLifeTimeManager()
	{
		// ...
	}
}

If you know the architecture of Unity, this extension is pretty safe explanatory, event mine extension methods.

That’s the end of Interceptor journey. Happy Intercepting!