This may have been covered elsewhere, but I wasn't able to find it. I want to retrieve a single entity without any of its traversing the object graph. I already use the "left join fetch" qualifier for other queries, but in this case the only available relationship has a nasty graph of its own.

Is this possible?

Michael

I'm not sure if it is what you need but isn't it the "lazy initialization" ? ( by adding to your child collection mapping lazy="true" ) ?

http://nhibernate.sourceforge.net/h2.0.3-docs/reference/html/collections.html#collections-s1-7

That's the other side of the relationship. This is the many side which doesn't have an explicit lazy-load option. I do have the virtual keyword applied to the property.

Michael

If objA references objB which is mapped as lazy in the class node and you don't use Fetch in your HQL then objB shouldn't be returned as a result of the query. You can confirm this via the logs.