Question

I can’t seem to test if an object is lazy initialized. What am I doing wrong here?

public void testLazy(){
   User lazyUser = User.withCriteria {
      like("userId", 'test')
      fetchMode("preferences", FetchMode.LAZY )
   }.get(0)

   assertFalse( "DOM objects of user were not lazy initialized",   
         GrailsHibernateUtil.isInitialized(lazyUser, "preferences") )
}

Answer 1

You’re doing all right.

Exactly same code piece worked for me – for a collection (of child domain objects) property, isInitialized() returned false and for a String property – true. Maybe FetchMode.LAZY is not a guarantee – if you’re requesting a simple type, it gets fetched anyway.

What is preferences‘ type?