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Hibernate version: v3

Mapping documents:
<hibernate-mapping package="com.etil.sudetp.business.manager.gameaccount.impl" >
<class name="Account" table="account" >
<cache usage="nonstrict-read-write"/>

<id name="accountId" unsaved-value="null" column="ACCOUNTID" >
<generator class="assigned"/>
</id>
<property name="timestampDB" type="long" column="TIMESTAMP" />
<property name="date" type="java.util.Date" column="DATE" />
<property name="description" type="string" column="DESCRIPTION" />
<property name="gameId" type="int" column="GAMEID" />
<property name="serverId" type="int" column="SERVERID" />
<map name="accountFieldMap" table="ACCOUNTFIELDMAP" cascade="all">
<key column="ACCOUNTID" not-null="true"/>
<map-key column="FIELDID" type="string"/>
<one-to-many class="AccountField"/>
</map>
</class>
</hibernate-mapping>
<hibernate-mapping package="com.etil.sudetp.business.manager.gameaccount.impl" >
<class name="AccountField" table="accountfieldmap" >
<id name="id" type="int" column="ID" >
<generator class="native"/>
</id>
<property name="accountId" type="string" column="ACCOUNTID" />
<property name="fieldId" type="string" column="FIELDID" />
<property name="status" type="string" column="STATUS" />
<property name="value" type="string" column="VALUE" />
</class>
</hibernate-mapping>

Code between sessionFactory.openSession() and session.close():
Criteria query = s.session.createCriteria(AccountSale.class).add(
Expression.eq("userId", userId));

List sales = query.list();
for (Iterator it = sales.iterator(); it.hasNext(); ) {
AccountSale sale = (AccountSale) it.next();
Account account = (Account) s.session.get(Account.class, sale.getAccountId());
account.getAccountFieldMap();
sale.setAccount(account);
}

Why aren't my account fields loaded with the account? Worst than that, why is my account even not loaded if I am using the load method rather than the get.

Thanks.
DvJ

Ingenu,

Try playing with the lazy settings for the many-to-one association. You can set lazy to false if you are sure you always want the association or you can play with Hibernate.initialize().

The load() api just generates a proxy, the get() api downloads from the database. The load() is very useful for example when you only know the id of an object and you just need the id in the rest of your code. You call load(), get a proxy object and use it to save the associated object or what else you need to do. If later on in the code you access some other property then the access to the database is generated.

Hibernate has a bit of a learning curve. Please read the manual, you will avoid lots of frustration. Talking from own experience :)

Marius