Hi

What is the best/easiest way to exclude certain collections belonging to an object ?

Let's say that we have object A, A contains an entity B (@OneToOne, @JoinColumn..) and a collection C (@OneToMany..@JoinColumn) and another collection D. B has a collection of BE's (@OneToMany..).

I now want to fetch an A depending on a criteria but only load the A and it's entity B + BE's. Or perhaps the A and it's collection D.

Is there a simple way to exclude certain objects/relations when doing a search ?

/Laban

Hi,

There isn't any 'excluding' of collections/entities. By default hibernate will fetch only the entity, you asked for.

Hibernate can fetch associated entities either 'Lazily' (the collection is fetch, when it is used) or 'Eagerly (the collection is fetched in the time of fetching the 'parent' entity. The fetching strategy can be set either in the mapping file ( fetch = "select" for lazy fetching, and fetch = "join" for egager fetching), or it can be set while creating the query or criteria (criteria.setFetchMode("propertyName", FetchMode.JOIN/FetchMode.SELECT) )

Hope it helps.