Eager Fetching all Collections

Guest · **Posted:** Mon Oct 31, 2005 7:09 pm

Is it possible to eagerly fetch all lazy collections related to a single object? If so, is it possible to do this using Session.Load or must you use HQL or a Critiera?

thanks,
craig

xor · **Posted:** Tue Nov 01, 2005 4:00 am

You can explicitely initialize a collection (and a proxy) with NHibernateUtil.Initialize method.

KPixel · **Posted:** Tue Nov 01, 2005 4:13 am

Currently, you can eargerly fetch only one collection.

With HQL, you do something like:

Code:

from MyEntity e left join fetch e.MyCollection

tinomen · **Joined:** Tue May 24, 2005 12:55 pm **Posts:** 56

Does NHibernateUtil.Initialize cascade or just act on the object or collection?

xor · **Posted:** Thu Nov 03, 2005 4:15 am

tinomen wrote:

Does NHibernateUtil.Initialize cascade or just act on the object or collection?

AFAIK, it loads only the given collection or proxy. At the same time, if objects being loaded have relationships to other objects or non-lazy collections then everything will be loaded in the usual manner. So Initialize doesn't specially cascade, but cascading could take place.