Question

how to set fetch type at run time in hibernate 3.2?

session.beginTransaction();  
Customer customer = session.get(getCustomerId());  
session.save(customer);  
session.commit(); 

if any possibility to change fetch type(“lazy/eager”) at run time. so,is there any impact when already defined a fetch mode i.e.,”select/join” in hibernate.mapping file?.If any wrong with question sorry.

Answer 1

You can use join fetch to specify a specific collection to initialize.

e.g.

from Cat as cat
inner join fetch cat.mate
left join fetch cat.kittens

See more here

Or you can use the criteria API