Hello,

i'm very new to NHibernate (Indirectly, via ActiveRecord, but there is very low user community for the former... That's why i'm trying to ask here).

i'm currently working on a WCF project which uses Castle.ActiveRecord for persistency / abstraction layer. The client consuming the WCF service is Javascript based, and we use ExtJS as our main framework.

Now, let's say i have this:
- Table A.
- Table B with many-to-one to A.
- Table C with many-to-one B and many-to-one A.

All the database fields are mapped perfectly thru ActiveRecord to accessors. When doing for instance: A.find(), it works, and doing aInstance.deliveryBills also works.

Now, to allow the objects to be directly sent over the wire, accessors are marked DataMembers, and objects are DataContract'ed. My problem is that if a method of my WCF returns an instance of A, there is way too much recursion on the serialization...

i'd like to be able to specify a recursion level, but i have no idea on how to do it.
This parameter would ideally be dynamic enough so one function of the WCF service returning instances of A would *NOT* include any B, while another method of my service would return A including it's Bs -> Cs -> As

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Pierre.