Hello,

I have a class with a non-lazy list of child items. When I fetch the data from the DB, I can access the parent properties just fine but there is something strange with the child list. I have two rows in the database and the log says

total objects hydrated: 2
...
collection fully initialized
1 collections initialized

However, when fetch the child list size(), says that it contains 3 items and even more strange, if I try to iterate over it, I get a NPE even from trying to do a getClass().getName() on the first item.

Or have I misunderstood something?

Thanks in advance,
Nik

Is it mapped as a List? If so sounds like your indexes may be staring from 1 instead of zero, in which case Hibernate would insert a null element in the first List position.

Aah, thanks, that was it. The path of Hibernate is full of traps for the careless noob :-)