Question

Have following query to the database:

        Session session = EmployeesDAO.getSessionFactory().getCurrentSession();
        List<Employee> employees = new ArrayList<Employee>();
        try {
            session.beginTransaction();
            String hqlQuery = "from Employee emp "
                    + "left join fetch emp.employeesOffices employeesOffice "
                    + "left join fetch employeesOffice.office employeesOfficeOffice "
                    + "left join fetch employeesOfficeOffice.company "
                    + "left join fetch emp.address empAddress "
                    + "left join fetch empAddress.city empAddressCity "
                    + "left join fetch empAddressCity.country";
            Query empQuery = session.createQuery(hqlQuery);
            empQuery.setMaxResults(maxResult);
            employees = (List<Employee>) empQuery.list();
            session.getTransaction().commit();

        } catch (HibernateException e) {
            session.getTransaction().rollback();
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

While fetching employee.address.street, employee.address.houseNumber or employee.address.city it fails with the exception:

org.hibernate.LazyInitializationException: could not initialize proxy - no Session
    at org.hibernate.proxy.AbstractLazyInitializer.initialize(AbstractLazyInitializer.java:164)
    at org.hibernate.proxy.AbstractLazyInitializer.getImplementation(AbstractLazyInitializer.java:285)
    at org.hibernate.proxy.pojo.javassist.JavassistLazyInitializer.invoke(JavassistLazyInitializer.java:185)
    at com.employees.model.Address_$$_javassist_6.getCity(Address_$$_javassist_6.java)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at javax.el.BeanELResolver.getValue(BeanELResolver.java:87)
    at javax.el.CompositeELResolver.getValue(CompositeELResolver.java:67)
    at org.apache.el.parser.AstValue.getValue(AstValue.java:169)
    at org.apache.el.ValueExpressionImpl.getValue(ValueExpressionImpl.java:189)
    at org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.proprietaryEvaluate(PageContextImpl.java:985)
    at org.apache.jsp.WEB_002dINF.listEmployees_jsp._jspx_meth_c_005fout_005f3(listEmployees_jsp.java:306)
    at org.apache.jsp.WEB_002dINF.listEmployees_jsp._jspx_meth_c_005fforEach_005f1(listEmployees_jsp.java:248)
    at org.apache.jsp.WEB_002dINF.listEmployees_jsp._jspx_meth_c_005fforEach_005f0(listEmployees_jsp.java:155)
    at org.apache.jsp.WEB_002dINF.listEmployees_jsp._jspService(listEmployees_jsp.java:89)
    at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)
    at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:432)
    at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:390)
    at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:334)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:305)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:690)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.processRequest(ApplicationDispatcher.java:477)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:402)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:329)
    at com.employees.controller.EmployeeController.processRequest(EmployeeController.java:69)
    at com.employees.controller.EmployeeController.doGet(EmployeeController.java:30)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:621)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:305)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:225)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:123)
    at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:472)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:168)
    at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:98)
    at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:927)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:118)
    at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:407)
    at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1001)
    at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:585)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:310)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Mapping for Employee:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC
"-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 3.0//EN"
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-mapping>
    <class name="com.employees.model.Employee" table="employees">
        <id column="employee_id" name="employeeId" type="int">
            <generator class="sequence">
                <param name="sequence">EMP_SEQ</param>
            </generator>
        </id>
        <property column="first_name" name="firstName" type="java.lang.String" />
        <property column="last_name" name="lastName" type="java.lang.String" />

        <many-to-one name="address" column="address_id" 
            class="com.employees.model.Address"/>
        <set name="employeesOffices" >
            <key column="employee_id" />
            <one-to-many class="com.employees.model.EmployeeOffice"/>
        </set>

    </class>
</hibernate-mapping>

Mapping for Address:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC
"-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 3.0//EN"
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-mapping>
    <class name="com.employees.model.Address" table="addresses">
        <id column="address_id" name="addressId" type="int">
            <generator class="sequence">
                <param name="sequence">ADDRESS_SEQ</param>
            </generator>
        </id>
        <property column="street" name="street" type="java.lang.String" />
        <property column="house_number" name="houseNumber" type="int" />
        <many-to-one name="city" column="city_id"
            class="com.employees.model.City"/>
    </class>

</hibernate-mapping>

It’s absolutely normal with other classes (Office, Company, etc). If comment the lines which load address fields in jsp application works without any exceptions. What’s wrong? By the way it shows all information on jsp despite the exception.

Answer 1

Your objects inside employee are lazy initialized. That’s mean, they are initializing only on demand on non-closed session. So you have to initialize them all manually inside loop after fetching from DB:

Query empQuery = session.createQuery(hqlQuery);
empQuery.setMaxResults(maxResult);
employees = (List<Employee>) empQuery.list();
for (Employee emp : employees) {
    Hibernate.initialize(emp.address);
}