I want to know that when an object is loaded if it is defined lazy = "true",

whenever it is used?

or whenever its getter method is called?

or else?



<class name="Cat" table="cats" lazy = "true">

.....
.....

<bag name="matcheds" lazy = "true" table = "MATCHEDS"
cascade="all">
<key column="CAT_ID">
<many-to-many class="Cat"
column="MATCHED_CAT_ID">
<bag>

...


public void addMatchCat(Cat c) {
if (matcheds.contains(c)) {
return;
}
else kittens.add(c);
}

In that example, when I debugged, I saw that already Cat c is in matcheds list, contains method returns false. How can this happen?

When I set lazy = "false" to the class, everything is fine (properly working but too more queries)

Aha,

equals check doesnt force to load the lazy object.

Am I correct??

If object x is lazy loaded than calling


calling y.equals(x) doesnt load the object X,

but calling x.getName() loads the lazy object full.

Am I correct??

Thats correct. Only calling a method on the lazily loaded object will cause it to be loaded from the database.