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* Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
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package org.hibernate.proxy;
/**
* Utility methods for working with proxies. (this class is being phased out)
* @author Gavin King
*/
public final class HibernateProxyHelper {
/**
* Get the class of an instance or the underlying class
* of a proxy (without initializing the proxy!). It is
* almost always better to use the entity name!
*/
public static Class getClassWithoutInitializingProxy(Object object) {
if (object instanceof HibernateProxy) {
HibernateProxy proxy = (HibernateProxy) object;
LazyInitializer li = proxy.getHibernateLazyInitializer();
return li.getPersistentClass();
}
else {
return object.getClass();
}
}
private HibernateProxyHelper() {
//cant instantiate
}
}