How to get the Entity POCO type from the Entity Proxy type?

Question

I'm migrating a project from EF6 to EF-Core. The Metadata API has changed significantly and I am unable to find a solution to this:

Under EF6 I could find the POCO Type from the Proxy Type using:

ObjectContext.GetObjectType(theEntity.GetType)

This, however, does not work under EF-Core (no ObjectContext class). I've searched and searched to no avail. Does anyone know how to get the POCO type from either the entity or the entity proxy type?

Answer 1

There is no perfect way. You could for example check the namespace. If it's a proxy it'll

private Type Unproxy(Type type)
{
    if(type.Namespace == "Castle.Proxies")
    {
        return type.BaseType;
    }
    return type;
}