Hibernate version:
2.1.6

Is there a way that we can disable somehow Hibernate of throwing LazyInitializationException. I want to use Lazy="true" for some of my relationships. The problem is that I have generated code between a client and a WebService end point and this generated code try to access every single property of an object to stream it into XML and back for the SOAP request. Therefore, I'd prefer to have a dumb NULL if accessing a Lazy attribute.

By the way, the session is being closed already, since I don't spam the session to user request. I handle the sessions very atomic on a layer on my architecture, not letting any client deal with Hibernate sessions.

Thanks,
Marcelo.

This is kind of an interesting question...


I think the lazyInitialization exception occurs for your detached objects because while you think you're dealing with the object itself, you're actually dealing with a proxy to it.

One trick to get around it would be to use org.apache.commons.beanutils.CopyProperties to copy all the properties from your proxied object to a true represenation of your pojo. This is a bit of a hack however.


I'd like to see what some of the experts say about your original question...


Joe

You can create two classes and two mappings that point to the same table.

For example, object A has all the properties that are not lazy and object B will inherit object A and will only include lazy properties. That way you can just load object A instead. Make sure that object's B's mapping has polymorphic="explicit" in the mapping.