Hibernate version:
3.2

I have searched around, but can't seem to find an answer.

I have certain fields in my mapping set to lazily load. This is what i want most of the time. But, i was wondering if there was a way to tell hibernate on a case by case basis to load everything all at once (including all my lazy fields and all the fields inside the lazy fields). Basically, there are times, i want to load every piece of data all the way to the bottom. Does anyone know if this is possible?

If not, does anyone know if I used the clone method in Apache Commons SerializationUtils (http://commons.apache.org/lang/api/org/apache/commons/lang/SerializationUtils.html#clone(java.io.Serializable) whether or not this would accomplish the same thing? This should be an easy test for me, but i wanted to know if there was a more efficient and direct way to force the loading of all fields.

Thanks,

Paul

I wanted to refresh this topic for one more chance at an answer... so, does anyone have any ideas? I have a deadline approaching quickly and i am hoping for a solution.

Thanks.

Did you read the docs about fetching strategies?

http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/v3/re ... e-fetching

Maybe Hibernate.initialize(yourEntity) is enough to solve your problem.

HTH, Maik

I have read the docs at some point in time... but that was a while ago, so I will go through them again to see if there is a solution in there. Thanks!