NHibernate fully populate a partially loaded collection

Question

I have a schema with Project objects. Each Project has an owner, and an additional collection of SharePermission objects detailing other users that can also access the Project. SharePermissions point to a more detailed user object of type IdentityUser

In this case, I load an IEnumerable of Projects using the method:

 /// <summary>
 /// Gets a collection of projects that a user id has access to view.
 /// </summary>
 public static IEnumerable<Project> GetVisibleByUserFuture(ISession session, int userId)
 {
     Project p = null;
     ProjectShare s = null;
     IdentityUser u = null;
     return session.QueryOver<Project>(() => p)
         .Left.JoinAlias(() => p.SharePermissions
                , () => s                // Only join when we are not owner
                , Restrictions.On(() => p.OwnerId).Not.IsIn(new [] { userId }))
         .Left.JoinAlias(() => s.User, () => u)
         .Where(() => s.User.UserId == userId || p.OwnerId == userId)
         .Future();
 }

You will notice that the SharePermissions part had a restriction on the join so only part of that collection is loaded.

Later on I want to pick a single Project from that previously loaded IEnumerable collection and load the full SharePermissions collection without restriction.

I am not entirely sure how I'm meant to do that.
Do I just load a whole new Project object again?
Or can I re-use the existing Project object and somehow tell NH to fully populate the SharePermissions collection?

Might want to try `NhibernateUtil.Initialize(p.SharePermissions)` but I think it only works on proxy objects, not partially loaded collections. — dotjoe, Aug 29 '14 at 18:22

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:57

Solution in this case would be session.Refresh(project). As documented here:

9.2. Loading an object (small cite)

It is possible to re-load an object and all its collections at any time, using the Refresh() method. This is useful when database triggers are used to initialize some of the properties of the object.

...
session.Refresh(project);

But I would suggest to change the query. Select just a root entity Project, use subquery to filter it, apply batch fetching for collection loading

check these links for batch fetching and subquery examples:

NHibernate fully populate a partially loaded collection

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