What's the best way to deal with Proxy<> objects

BIZ TMS Aurelius
1

Hi,

I have a class User and a class Employer. A User in my application is necessarily an Employee of the company but not the other way around.
I chose to have an association between those classes.
So I have something like :
TEmployee= class(TObject)

[...]
[Association([TAssociationProp.Lazy],)]
[JoinColumn('User_ID')]
FCorrespondingUser: Proxy<TUser>;

Now the thing is when I want to insert an Employee object in my database, and more precisely when i want to set the attribute FCorrespondingUser.

I have something like :
var
Util : TUser;
Emp : TEmployee;
Manager : TObjectManager;
begin
Manager := TObjectManageR.Create(AureliusConnection);
Util := Manager.Find<TUser>(8);
[...]
Emp.CorrespondingUser := Util;
Here my Util is of type TUser, but the CorrespondingUser field is of type Proxy<TUser>
So i have an incompatible type issue.
What is the best way do deal with this ? Am i just supposed to cast my User to a Proxy<User>?

Thank you in advance,

Antoine

2

The indentation didn't work in my post, sorry for readability

3

Proxy types are used privately, and "regular classes" are used in public.

Have you checked this manual topic, it explains how to use proxy: http://www.tmssoftware.com/business/aurelius/doc/web/index.html?lazy-loading_associations.htm
4

Damn, I was doing like this, then I changed my properties for some reason, so it wasn't working anymore. I'ill just back to the way described in your link. Sorry for the dummy question