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 Post subject: ManyToOne Lazy/Eager and Inheritance
PostPosted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:34 am 
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Hi everybody,
Im workin on Hibernate version: 3.2.4 (from JBoss 4.2.2.GA)
and I have some problem configuring my entities.

This is my code:
Code:
@Entity
@Inheritance(strategy=InheritanceType.JOINED)
public class Party

@Entity
public class Person extends Party

@Entity
public class Doctor {
  @ManyToOne(cascade={CascadeType.ALL}, fetch = FetchType.EAGER)
  public Party getParty()
}


With this configuration, when i do this:
Code:
Person pers = (Person) doctor.getParty();

everithing is ok!

But when i set party fechtype as LAZY an error occurred:
java.lang.ClassCastException: mypackage.Party_$$_javassist_104

By now I found a workarround to set it LAZY anyway:
instead of this:
Code:
Person pers = (Person) doctor.getParty();


i do this:
Code:
Party party= doctor.getParty();
Person pers = (Person) entityManager.find(Person.class, party.getId());


even if the consequence is this:

WARN [ProxyWarnLog] Narrowing proxy to class myPackage.Person - this operation breaks ==

Can anyone tell me how can I set getParty LAZY and cast without any problem?
Code:
Person pers = (Person) doctor.getParty();


There is anything wrong on my approach?
Any suggestion will be appreciated!

Thanks

Francesco


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PostPosted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 7:08 am 
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Same problen here: a lazy many-to-one relationship pointing to an abstract class.
Did you find a solution?

http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module= ... c&t=125551


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 Post subject: ManyToOne Lazy/Eager and Inheritance
PostPosted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 3:53 am 
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Hi!
I didn't find a solution yet but I found a workarround:

instead of this:
Code:
Person pers = (Person) doctor.getParty();

i do this:
Code:
Party party= doctor.getParty();
Person pers = (Person) entityManager.find(Person.class, party.getId());

Note: Person extends Party, Doctor manyToOne Party


I hope it helps you.
If you find a solution a post would be really appreciated!
Thaks,

Fra


gquintana wrote:
Same problen here: a lazy many-to-one relationship pointing to an abstract class.
Did you find a solution?

http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module= ... c&t=125551


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PostPosted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 4:14 am 
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Thanks for your solution.

Personnally, I use a "join fetch" when loading the doctor:
Code:
from Doctor as d join fetch d.party where d.id=:doctorId


The problem is described in Hibernate documentation:
http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/v3/re ... ng-proxies
But not the solution :-(


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PostPosted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 6:19 am 
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I sometimes did that too...
But I think it's really sad that we have to do the same thing we do programming without entities....

If there is not a solution I'm asking myself why I'm using it... :-/

...let's hope to someone who tell us The solution. :-)


gquintana wrote:
Thanks for your solution.

Personnally, I use a "join fetch" when loading the doctor:
Code:
from Doctor as d join fetch d.party where d.id=:doctorId


The problem is described in Hibernate documentation:
http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/v3/re ... ng-proxies
But not the solution :-(


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PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 5:36 am 
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Please really READ the http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/v3/reference/en/html/performance.html#performance-fetching-proxies

Solution is to write and use an INTERFACE for EVERY Entity in your Inheritance-hierarchy. Then you work furthermore only with this interfaces in your code.

Example:

Code:

public Interface IPerson extends IParty {
}

@Entity
@Proxy(IPerson.class)
public class PersonImpl extends PartyImpl implements IPerson {

IPerson person;

@ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY, targetEntity=PersonImpl.class)
public IPerson getPerson(){
   return this.person;
}

}


IParty person = this.em.find(PartyImpl.class, id);

(person instanceof IPerson) will return true !!

You can cast IPerson to IParty, but you CANNOT cast IPerson to PersonImpl !


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PostPosted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:43 pm 
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Thanks for your answer Rhodan but I really don't like this solution.
As I explaned in my post I'd like to do this:
Code:
Person pers = (Person) doctor.getParty();

This code works when relationship is set as EAGER but it doesn't work when it's set LAZY.

You're right, I didn't read all the documentation but sorry, what you told me to do is too complex for the problem I have (even if its written on that document).

I don't like that I have to make my design so complex just to set a LAZY relationship.

Rhodan wrote:
Please really READ the http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/v3/reference/en/html/performance.html#performance-fetching-proxies

Solution is to write and use an INTERFACE for EVERY Entity in your Inheritance-hierarchy. Then you work furthermore only with this interfaces in your code.

Example:

Code:

public Interface IPerson extends IParty {
}

@Entity
@Proxy(IPerson.class)
public class PersonImpl extends PartyImpl implements IPerson {

IPerson person;

@ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY, targetEntity=PersonImpl.class)
public IPerson getPerson(){
   return this.person;
}

}


IParty person = this.em.find(PartyImpl.class, id);

(person instanceof IPerson) will return true !!

You can cast IPerson to IParty, but you CANNOT cast IPerson to PersonImpl !


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PostPosted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 12:10 pm 
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I have the same problem.
Has anyone found a solution different to write an Interface for Every class in the inheritance?

Thanks
Sebastian


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PostPosted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 1:21 pm 
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Unfortunately I'm still looking for a better solution.
If you find it could you please post it here?
Tnx!

Fra

scarbo wrote:
I have the same problem.
Has anyone found a solution different to write an Interface for Every class in the inheritance?

Thanks
Sebastian


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PostPosted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 3:19 pm 
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I have seen many people try to do a different implementation, but writing an interface for each class tends to be the easiest way to get around the issues associated with abstract classes in the inheritance tree.

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 6:42 pm 
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I have tried this workaround and it works for me. I think I'm going to go on this way.
The only problem I have is that we are migrating an existing project form Toplink to Hibernate and we have lots of classes to refactor. But that is my problem.
Thanks


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 Post subject: Re: ManyToOne Lazy/Eager and Inheritance
PostPosted: Sat Jun 06, 2009 2:18 pm 
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I have come across the same problem using Hibernate and AMF. my workaround was to write a little class that makes a clone of the original object graph using BeanUtils which then gave me a clean copy of the original object without all the "_$$_" stuff. Seems to be working fine so far.


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 Post subject: Re: ManyToOne Lazy/Eager and Inheritance
PostPosted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 10:18 pm 
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I added the following method to my app's hibernate utils class:

Code:
   
   public static <T> T getProxiedObject(T proxy){
      if ( proxy instanceof HibernateProxy ) {
         return (T) ( ( HibernateProxy ) proxy ).getHibernateLazyInitializer().getImplementation();
      }
      return proxy;
   }

Maybe this should be added to the org.hibernate.Hibernate class? (Useful in contexts similar to Hibernate.getClass(proxy))

edit: code formatting


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