Question

I’m getting this exceptions:

javax.el.ELException: Error reading 'id' on type com.example.model.Article_$$_javassist_2
...

org.hibernate.LazyInitializationException: could not initialize proxy - no Session
org.hibernate.proxy.AbstractLazyInitializer.initialize(AbstractLazyInitializer.java:149)
org.hibernate.proxy.AbstractLazyInitializer.getImplementation(AbstractLazyInitializer.java:195)
org.hibernate.proxy.pojo.javassist.JavassistLazyInitializer.invoke(JavassistLazyInitializer.java:185)
com.example.model.Article_$$_javassist_2.getId(Article_$$_javassist_2.java)
...

Here’s my code:

@Entity
@Table( name = "tbl_articles" )
public class Article implements Comparable<Article>, Serializable
{
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

    @Id
    @Column( nullable = false )
    @GeneratedValue( strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY )
    private Integer id;

    // some other fields

    @ManyToMany( cascade = { CascadeType.ALL } )
    @JoinTable( name = "tbl_articles_categories",
        joinColumns = { @JoinColumn( name = "article_id" ) },
        inverseJoinColumns = { @JoinColumn( name = "category_id" ) })
    @ForeignKey( name = "tbl_articles_categories_fkey_article",
        inverseName = "tbl_articles_categories_fkey_category" )
    private Set<Category> categories = new HashSet<Category>();

    @ManyToMany( cascade = { CascadeType.ALL } )
    @JoinTable( name = "tbl_articles_tags",
        joinColumns = { @JoinColumn( name = "article_id" ) },
        inverseJoinColumns = { @JoinColumn( name = "tag_id" ) })
    @ForeignKey( name = "tbl_articles_tags_fkey_article",
        inverseName = "tbl_articles_tags_fkey_tag" )
    private Set<Tag> tags = new HashSet<Tag>();

    // getters and setters
}

public abstract class BaseService<E, D extends BaseDAO<E>>
{
    protected D dao;

    public BaseService()
    {
    }

    protected D getDao()
    {
        return dao;
    }

    @Autowired
    protected void setDAO( D dao )
    {
        this.dao = dao;
    }

    @Transactional
    public E get( int id )
    {
        return dao.get( id );
    }
}

@Service
public class ArticleService extends BaseService<Article, ArticleDAO>
{
    public ArticleService()
    {
        setDAO( dao );
    }
}

public abstract class BaseDAO<E>
{
    public abstract E get( int id );
}

@Repository
public class ArticleDAO extends BaseDAO<Article>
{
    @Autowired
    private SessionFactory sessionFactory;

    @Override
    public Article get( int id )
    {
        return ( Article ) sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().load( Article.class, id );
    }
}

In my Controller now, I’m using this to get a specific article:

@RequestMapping( "/{id}/{title}.html" )
public String article( @PathVariable( "id" ) Integer id, Map<String, Object> map )
{
    map.put( "article", articleService.get( id ) );
    return "article";
}

Which I’m using in my JSP just like this:

<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="fmt" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/fmt" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="slg" uri="http://github.com/slugify" %>
<article>
    <c:url value="/blog/${article.id}/${slg:slugify(article.title)}.html" var="articleUrl" />
    <h2><a href="${articleUrl}">${article.title}</a></h2>
    <span><fmt:formatDate value="${article.creationDate}" pattern="E, dd MMM yyyy" /></span>
    <p>
        ${article.text}
    </p>
</article>

Here’s my hibernate configuration as well:

# Properties file with Hibernate Settings.

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Common Settings

hibernate.generate_statistics=false
#hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto=update
hibernate.show_sql=false

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# DB specific Settings

# Property that determines which Hibernate dialect to use
hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQLDialect

What I’m doing wrong?

UPDATE

Debugging sessionFactory.getCurrentSession() results in:

DEBUG : com.example.model.ArticleDAO - SessionImpl(PersistenceContext[entityKeys=[],collectionKeys=[]];ActionQueue[insertions=[] updates=[] deletions=[] collectionCreations=[] collectionRemovals=[] collectionUpdates=[] unresolvedInsertDependencies=UnresolvedEntityInsertActions[]])

I’m adding some global variables, maybe this causing the errors? In my controller there’s a method:

@ModelAttribute
public void addGlobalObjects( Map<String, Object> map )
{
    map.put( "section", "blog" );

    SortedMap<Category, Integer> categories = new TreeMap<Category, Integer>();
    for ( Category category : categoryService.list() )
    {
        categories.put( category, articleService.size( category ) );
    }

    Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
    cal.set( Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, 1 );

    cal.add( Calendar.MONTH, ARCHIVE_MONTHS * -1 );

    SortedMap<Date, Integer> archive = new TreeMap<Date, Integer>();
    for ( int i = 0; i < ARCHIVE_MONTHS; ++i )
    {
        cal.add( Calendar.MONTH, 1 );
        archive.put( cal.getTime(), articleService.size( cal ) );
    }

    SortedMap<Tag, Integer> tags = new TreeMap<Tag, Integer>();
    for ( Tag tag : tagService.list() )
    {
        tags.put( tag, articleService.size( tag ) );
    }

    map.put( "categories", categories );
    map.put( "archive", archive );
    map.put( "tags", tags );

    map.put( "categoriesSize", categoryService.size() );
    map.put( "tagsSize", tagService.size() );

    map.put( "date", new Date() );
}

For updated article entity see above.

UPDATE2

Eager fetching didn’t solved the problem – still the same exception:

@ManyToMany( fetch = FetchType.EAGER, cascade = { CascadeType.ALL } )

And finally I’m getting duplicated articles what I don’t need…

UPDATE3

Trying Hibernate.initialize() I’m getting this exception:

org.springframework.web.util.NestedServletException: Request processing failed; nested exception is org.hibernate.LazyInitializationException: could not initialize proxy - no Session

UPDATE4

I changed my get method this way:

@Override
public Article get( int id )
{
    // return ( Article ) sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().load( Article.class, id );
    return ( Article ) sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().createCriteria( Article.class ).add( Restrictions.eq( "id", id ) ).uniqueResult();
}

This is NOT a solution, but as I can’t handle this problem I’ll use this temporarily.

I already tried this (as mentioned here) without success (it changed the ELException from Error reading 'id' on type ... to Error reading 'title' on type ... – maybe i used it wrong?):

@Override
public Article get( int id )
{
    Article ret = ( Article ) sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().load( Article.class, id );
    sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().update( ret );
    return ret;
}

A solution is still needed!

Answer 1

This did the trick!

Changed ArticleDAO.get from

@Override
public Article get( int id )
{
    return ( Article ) sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().load( Article.class, id );
}

to

@Override
public Article get( int id )
{
    Article ret = ( Article ) sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().get( Article.class, id );
    if ( ret == null )
    {
        ret = ( Article ) sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().load( Article.class, id );
    }

    return ret;
}