I have two entities. One is a customer and other is order. Customer can have n number of orders(one to many). I have two java classes: customer and order. Customer has a list of orders.

The database implementation has one table. I have tested a sample out but for the same customer I get x number of customer objects and each have n number of objects. Is there a way of getting only one customer class back?


Hibernate mapping file for customer class:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 3.0//EN" "http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd">

<hibernate-mapping default-cascade="none" default-access="property"
auto-import="false">
<class name="customer" table="customer" dynamic-insert="true" select-before-update="false">
<id name="customerid" column="customerid" />


<bag name="order" inverse="false">
<key column="customerid" not-null="false" />
<one-to-many class="order" />
</bag>



</class>


</hibernate-mapping>

Hi,

How did you load the customer object?

there are two ways ,
1. Using Hibernate API's (session)
2. HQL query

I think you might have used HQL query (with join) to load the customer object.

So just try to load customer object using hibernate API, so it wont load customer object for each of his/her order.