Hi all,
I wonder if it's possible to unfetch a lazy association, that is, to revert it back to the state it was before being accessed. The motivation is the need to serialize a relatively tiny entity which has a number of associations to drop-down-like stuff, with name, description, etc. that is pointless to serialize too. Had I used a dto I would have serialized just the ids instead. Is there any way to achieve something similar with hibernate?
TIA.
Cheers,
Carlos

Since it is an implementation of a proxy pattern, I'm pretty sure there's no way to "uninitialize" the associations. Of course, since it is just a POJO, why not just set the associated entities to null before you serialize them?