[jboss-user] [EJB 3.0] - How to retrieve foreign key instead of the object (want no l

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Goal: ability to retrieve the foreign key without loading the related object/table row.

Scenario:

Entity bean contains a related entity bean.

@Entity
class Unit{ // Unit table

// what kind of unit
Model model;   // related object in Model table, related column is modelId

In the Unit table there is a column called modelId to point to the row in the Model table.  If I want this key value I can use

Unit u = .... somehow get it with EntityManager or whatever;

int modelId = u.getModel().getId(); // causes read of Model table!

Issue - this will cause a read of the model row from the DB (won't it, as in lazy loading will perform a JIT read)

I only need the modelId which is in the Unit table.  It seems there should be a way to do this and not load the related object. 

One can do this with EJBQL by using the reserved  Class.id syntax.  How can I take advantage of that in the ORM classes?

I used a simple example.  In my app if I can accomplish this I can easily avoid a lot of unwanted DB fetches.







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