Lazy Loading issue

vinodhts · **Posted:** Fri Oct 27, 2006 9:27 am

Hi all,
I have my mapping to load all dependent objects while loading the parent object.
But we may have to load all the top level objects like on findAll method.Only this time we dont want to load all the dependent objects.Is there a way i can load only the top level objects even though mapping it was not set to load lazy ?
Please repond asap.
Thanks,
Vinodh

kochcp · **Posted:** Fri Oct 27, 2006 10:23 am

you can always overwrite lazy loading in code. It is more difficult to go the other way.

so declare that relationship to be loaded lazily, and in the code simply make a load method which initializes that collection. This will make the findall only return the top level objects, and the load return the top level objects and its children

vinodhts · **Posted:** Fri Oct 27, 2006 11:00 am

Hi Chris ,
Thanks for your suggestion .Can you please provide a simple code example to overwrite lazy loading in code
Thanks,
Vinodh

kochcp · **Posted:** Fri Oct 27, 2006 11:11 am

Code:

openSession
MyObject object = dao.load(PK);
Hibernate.initialize(object.getChildren());
closeSession

you might have to call object.getChildren().size() inside that initialize method, sometimes it's weird depending on the version of hibernate you're running.

kartheekdatta · **Joined:** Thu Jun 29, 2006 4:46 pm **Posts:** 2

Alternatively, you can use the Criteria Queries which will enable you to selectively override lazy loading at each association level.