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        28/Jan/13 3:57 PM
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        <p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>Running Hibernate 4.1.8 in a GlassFish container.</p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>My domain model looks something like:</p>
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<pre class="code-java">@Entity(name = <span class="code-quote">"parent"</span>)
@Table(name = <span class="code-quote">"parent"</span>)
<span class="code-keyword">public</span> class Parent ... {
    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.SEQUENCE, generator = <span class="code-quote">"parent_id_seq"</span>)
    @SequenceGenerator(name = <span class="code-quote">"parent_id_seq"</span>, sequenceName = <span class="code-quote">"parent_id_seq"</span>, allocationSize = 100)
    @Column(name = <span class="code-quote">"id"</span>, nullable = <span class="code-keyword">false</span>)
    <span class="code-keyword">private</span> <span class="code-object">Long</span> id;

    @JoinColumn(name = <span class="code-quote">"child"</span>, referencedColumnName = <span class="code-quote">"id"</span>, nullable = <span class="code-keyword">true</span>)
    @ManyToOne(optional = <span class="code-keyword">true</span>, cascade = CascadeType.ALL, fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
    <span class="code-keyword">private</span> Child child;

    ....
}


@Entity(name = <span class="code-quote">"child"</span>)
@Table(name = <span class="code-quote">"child"</span>)
<span class="code-keyword">public</span> class Child .... {
    
    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.SEQUENCE, generator = <span class="code-quote">"child_id_seq"</span>)
    @SequenceGenerator(name = <span class="code-quote">"child_id_seq"</span>, sequenceName = <span class="code-quote">"child_id_seq"</span>, allocationSize = 100)
    @Column(name = <span class="code-quote">"id"</span>, nullable = <span class="code-keyword">false</span>)
    <span class="code-keyword">private</span> <span class="code-object">Long</span> id;

    ...

}</pre>
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<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>I have a block of code that's looking for Child with:</p>

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<pre class="code-java">entityManager.find(Child.class, id);</pre>
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<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>This is returning an javaassist lazy proxy instance, rather than the fully initialized Child instance I'd expect.</p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>Basically, I'd expect getReference(Child.class, id) to give me a lazy proxy reference, but not find().</p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>If I change the code to:</p>
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<pre class="code-java">entityManager.clear();
entityManager.find(Child.class, id);</pre>
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<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>I get a fully initialized Child instance, as I'd expect.</p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>It's worth noting that my Child and Parent classes are not @Cacheable</p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>Digging into the execution that's taking place in this TX, I'm seeing something along these lines (Sorry, I don't have time to put together a test case this week - but I will do my best to make time next week).</p>

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<pre class="code-java">Parent p = entityManager.find(Parent.class, 1);

<span class="code-comment">// The returned p has a Child with the id of 20
</span>
<span class="code-comment">// later in the TX, in a totally different class where code scope only has access to the ID of the child, and knows nothing about the parent instance...
</span>
Child c = entityManager.find(Child.class, 20);
<span class="code-comment">// c = a lazy reference, just like I'd get from entityManager.getReference(Child.class, 20);</span></pre>
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<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>If I invoke entityManager.clear(); prior to looking for the Child with id 20, I get the Child object.</p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>It looks like the entitymanager is return cached <em>references</em> for find() instead of cached <em>instances</em>.</p>
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        Hibernate 4.1.8 entitymanager, PostgreSQL 9.1, Oracle JDK 7 64bit linux.
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        <a style="color:#6c797f;" href="https://hibernate.onjira.com/browse/HHH">Hibernate ORM</a>
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        <strong style="font-weight:normal;color:#505050;">Priority:</strong>
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