Why Castle Active Record's `FindAllByProperty` calls `OnUpdate`?

Question

When I call FindAllByProperty it calls OnUpdate in castle Active Record, This causes an stack overflow because I do some duplicating check on OnUpdate an instance. Consider following code. Why it calls OnUpdate? How can stop it?

protected override void OnUpdate()
{
    if (FindAllByProperty("Title", this.Title).Length > 1)
        throw new Exception("duplicate Message in update");

    base.OnUpdate();
}

Answer 1

Here's what's probably happening:

1. Something in your app flushes your session.
2. While flushing, NHibernate / ActiveRecord executes your OnUpdate()
3. OnUpdate() calls FindAllByProperty()
4. FindAllByProperty() tries to run a query within the same session, but the session is still dirty, so NHibernate flushes the session.
5. Back to 2.

Thus, a stack overflow.

To avoid this, try running FindAllByProperty() within a new session:

using (new SessionScope())
  if (FindAllByProperty("Title", this.Title).Length > 1)
     throw new Exception("duplicate Message in update");