Question

I wanted to know whether iBatis can provide support for lazy fetch just like Hibernate supports? For example I have User class which has

public class User {
    List<Address> addresses;

    public List<Address> getAddresses(){
        return addresses;
    }
    ...
}

Now I wanted to implement the lazy fetching when user.getAddresses() is called. Is it possible to achieve this in iBatis? If yes then how?

Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

Sure.
According to documentation, you can set the lazyLoad attribute of the result element of a resultMap for the property you want to be lazy loaded.
E.g.:

<resultMap id="resultMapUser" class="User">
    <result property="addresses" select="someOtherStatementName" lazyLoad="true"/>
</resultMap>