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                <a style='color:#6c797f;text-decoration:none;' href='https://hibernate.onjira.com/browse/HHH-7953'><strong>EntityManager.find() returning uninitialized proxy reference</strong></a>
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        <div class="comment-block" style="background-color:#edf5ff;border:1px solid #dddddd;color:#000000;padding:12px;"><blockquote><p>So why would it return a non-proxy instance for a find() on a clear()ed EM, but a proxy instance otherwise?</p></blockquote>

<p>As all serious OR-Mappers, also Hibernate guarantees object identity within the persistent context.<br/>
As indirect consequence, Hibernate under certain circumstances MUST return a proxy instead of the proper entity object,<br/>
see following scenario:</p>

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<pre>entityManager.clear(); // start with a cleat persistent context
Child c1 = entityManager.getReference(Child.class, 20); // this returns a uninitialized proxy
...
Child c2 = entityManager.find(Child.class, 20); // the object get now initialized, but proxy is returned otherwise
(c1 == c2) would be false.

assertTrue(c1 == c2); 

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<p>Expressed in other words:<br/>
once hibernate delivers an entity object to the user as proxy,<br/>
then hibernate must continue to deliver that object to the user as proxy also for all subsequent operations (load,find, query etc.).</p>


<blockquote><p>Also, for an initialized proxy, all the internal fields appear to be 'null', and not hold any value.</p></blockquote>

<p>Yes, that's correct, only the identifier field(s) are filled in a proxy.<br/>
You have to access the entity properties via getter methods, so you will get the correct (non-null) values.<br/>
Read some documentation about Hibernate-Proxies and you will understand.</p>
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