How do I "FETCH ALL PROPERTIES" using a Criteria query?

Is it possible?

It's neiter in the manual nor in the API docs.
Apidoc says:

Criteria.setFetchMode(String associationPath, FetchMode mode)
"Specify an association fetching strategy for a one-to-many, many-to-one or one-to-one association, or for a collection of values."

(Nothing about lazy properties.)

cheers,
spunky

load(Customer.class, 1) gets all the value type properties for customer 1 . setFetchMode("orders", FethMode.Eager) will get all of the value type properties of each order. you have observed hibernate behave differently?

No, he's right, there is no equivalent of "fetch all properties" in load() or criteria.

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