NHibernate auditing in disconnected mode
- by Ciaran
I'm developing an app with a Silverlight UI, transferring my domain objects over WCF and persisting them via NHibernate.
I'm therefore working with NHibernate in a disconnected mode.
I'm already using the NHibernate PreUpdate and PreInsert EventListeners to perform some metadata operations (updating Create/Update date, created/updated by etc) and they are working fine.
I now have a requirement to perform data logging on some of my domain objects. So I will need to have an audit table that has a before-save and after-save state of certain entities.
I had wanted to use the @event.Persister.OldState and @event.Persister.NewState to perform this logging, but because I am in a disconnected scenario (using different Sessions from when data is retrieved to when it is persisted), @event.Persister.OldState is null when I am saving my changes back to the database.
How is anyone else doing data logging in a disconnected scenario with NHibernate?