in a nutshell, i have an entity w/ a one-to-many (eager fetching) list of child entities. i also have a transient Map i want to populate for constant-time lookup of the children

in a @PostLoad, i iterate over children and place them in the Map.
however, the PostLoad causes a
org.hibernate.LazyInitializationException: illegal access to loading collection
because apparently hibernate invokes the callbacks before the collections are initialized.

is there any way around this?
or is there a different strategy for accomplishing what i need (lookup into the list)

thx

One cheap hack is to load the map on first access:



I know it's ugly, but if you can't find anything else . . .