Question

My code retrieves all information related to the user:

SessionFactory sessionFactory = HibernateUtilities.configureSessionFactory();
Session session = sessionFactory.openSession();
UserDetails ud = null;
Set<Address> userAddress = null;

try {
    session.beginTransaction();
    ud = (UserDetails) session.get(UserDetails.class, 1);
    userAddress = ud.getAddresses();
    session.getTransaction().commit();
} catch (HibernateException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
    session.getTransaction().rollback();
} finally {
    session.close();
}

System.out.println(ud.getName());

for(Address addr: userAddress){
    System.out.println("State " + addr.getState());
}

The ud.getAddresses() simply returns a set of Addresses of the user.

My question is: why does the ud object still have its value (eg, name) even though the session is already closed? getAddresses() is an instance variable of the UserDetails class. But why can’t I retrieve its value but I can retrieve regular instance variables of the UserDetails class?

ud.getAddresses() is an @EmbeddedCollection.

Answer 1

userAddress = ud.getAddresses();
session.getTransaction().commit();
for(Address addr: userAddress) {

The hibernate documentation for working with lazy associations clearly calls out this kind of access as an error. You can interact with lazily associated objects only while the session is still open. That portion of the documentation also provides alternatives to access such lazily associated members of an object and we prefer to specify the fetch mode as JOIN in the criteria used, in our applications.