Question

I am using spring + hibernate in my project; I have two classes Reminder and Client
in class reminder i have added a relationship of many to one for client and it is by default eagerly loaded. I want this Object graph most of the scenarios in my project so i have set fetch type eager for client in reminder class

Class Reminder {
    @ManyToOne
    Client client;
}

but for one or two scenarios i want to keep initialization of this object client lazy;

so i have added in method for fetching reminders is like below

Criteria c = session.createCriteria();
c.setFetchMode("client", FetchMode.SELECT); 
hibernateTemplate.findByCriteria(criteria);

it is not working; it still loads client objects with reminder

while reverse (from lazy to eager) is working fine

Answer 1

From the api doc:

public static final FetchMode SELECT

Fetch eagerly, using a separate select. Equivalent to fetch="select"

AFAIK, if a mapping is marked as lazy, you may fetch eagerly using a criteria or HQL query, but you can’t do the reverse : if a mapping is marked as eager, then it’ll always be fetched eagerly.