[jboss-user] [Persistence, JBoss/CMP, Hibernate, Database] - Lazy children loaded when persist is called

scatudal@gmail.com do-not-reply at jboss.com
Thu Dec 11 10:43:23 EST 2008


Let's say we have an entity that has a OneToMany relationship declared like this :


  | @OneToMany(cascade = CascadeType.ALL, fetch = FetchType.LAZY, mappedBy = "Parent")
  | public Set<Child> getChildren() {
  | 	return this.children;
  | }
  | 
  | public void setChildren(Set<Child> children) {
  | 	this.children = children;
  | }
  | 

When I call persist on the entity, hibernate firsts populates the list of children although I have never accessed the getter.

Here is the call in a stateless session bean:

  | 
  | package org.domain.services.users;
  | 
  | import javax.ejb.Stateless;
  | import javax.persistence.EntityManager;
  | import javax.persistence.PersistenceContext;
  | 
  | import org.domain.SeamOne.entity.Parent;
  | import org.domain.services.users.ParentManager;
  | 
  | public @Stateless
  | class ParentManagerBean implements ParentManager {
  | 
  | 	@PersistenceContext
  | 	private EntityManager em;
  | 
  | 	public void ChangeName(String pName, String pId) {
  | 		Parent parent = em.find(Parent.class, pId);
  | 		// An hibernate trace just appeared that shows a select just for 
  | 		// the parent class
  | 		
  | 		parent.setName( pName );
  | 		
  | 		
  | 		em.persist(parent);
  | 		// An hibernate trace just appeared that shows a select to populate
  | 		// the children
  | 	}
  | }
  | 
  | 

When I first saw the traces from hibernate, I didn't know for sure which call had produced the traces.  I then started jboss in debug mode and stepped through the code to realize that the children were loaded on the persist call.

My code works fine, but I can't see the need for that query when the children have not been accessed because they can't be dirty.

I've tried removing the "cascade = CascadeType.ALL" and it then doesn't do the query, but I now have to call persist on the children of the class when they have been modified.

Is there a reason for that behavior?  
Is that an bug?  
Is there a way to circumvent this without loosing the cascading feature?


Thank you all,
Sylvain Catudal



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