c# - Get underlying entity object from entity framework proxy

Question

I have an entity by getting it from DbEntityEntry.Entity. This returns the Entity Framework proxy for the entity.

How do I access the underlying object as it's original type instead of the proxy?

Alternatively I need to dynamically try to cast the proxy to the entity type. Here's a start..

var theEntityType = entityEntry.Entity;

if (theEntityType.BaseType != null && entityType.Namespace == "System.Data.Entity.DynamicProxies")
       theEntityType = entityType.BaseType;

// Now I need to cast to the correct type
var entityObject = (theEntityType)entityEntry.Entity; // THIS WON'T WORK BECAUSE `theEntityType` is dynamic.
// My entites also don't implement IConvertible

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25770369/get-underlying-entity-object-from-entity-framework-proxy

Answer 1

While working with EF 6 i used the following code to get the underlying POCO entity type from proxy type,

var entityType = ObjectContext.GetObjectType(dbEntitymodifiedEntry.Entity.GetType());

ObjectContext.GetObjectType : Return the POCO from proxy object

reference : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/ef/ef6/fundamentals/proxies