Question

I need to set the fetch mode on my hibernate mappings to be eager in some cases, and lazy in others. I have my default (set through the hbm file) as lazy=’true’. How do I override this setting in code? MyClass has a set defined of type MyClass2 for which I want to set the FetchMode to EAGER.

Currently, I have something like:

Session s = HibernateUtil.getSessionFactory().openSession(); MyClass c = (MyClass)session.get(MyClass.class, myClassID); 

Answer 1

You could try something like this: (code off the top of my head)

Criteria crit = session.createCriteria(MyClass.class); crit.add(Restrictions.eq('id', myClassId)); crit.setFetchMode('myProperty', FetchMode.EAGER); MyClass myThingy = (MyClass)crit.uniqueResult(); 

I believe that FetchMode.JOIN or FetchMode.SELECT should be used instead of FetchMode.EAGER, though.