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Hibernate version: 3.1.2

I have an hibernate entity DAO object, which has lots of properties set to null, and a primary key has been allocated through its constructor. Is there any way to persist it to a DB row and set all of the null fields to "initialize on demand", *WITHOUT calling the database*?

I'm using a DAO as its own query return bean, and the above problem is holding me back from constructing queries that return partially populated DAO's! (using reflection and varArgs in super constructors etc)

Thanks guys!

-Adam

Use a UserType

for some reason the "default" settings in my property tags don't take hold...I haven't figured it out yet - I recall reading that you need to set the values from your java code...now the question is "why?"... if there is a provision in hibernate for "default" values why doesn't hibernate set them. I suppose you could always initialize the fields in your class, ie:
String name="bob"; for the 'name' property.