[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Closed: (HHH-3383) QueryKey is storing references to entities instead of identifiers

QueryKey is storing references to entities instead of identifiers ----------------------------------------------------------------- Key: HHH-3383 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-3383 Project: Hibernate Core Issue Type: Improvement Components: caching (L2) Affects Versions: 3.3.0.CR1 Environment: ehcache 1.5.0b2 Reporter: Manuel Dominguez Sarmiento Assignee: Steve Ebersole Fix For: 3.2.x, 3.3.x, 3.5 Attachments: HHH-3383.patch Context: query caching Hibernate is storing full entity references when building QueryKeys and the query has restrictions which reference entities. This happens either with Criteria or HQL queries. Although this is not incorrect, when the referenced entities reference in turn "heavy" object graphs, this causes a very significant memory usage increase, since references to detached entities will remain in the cache. This is even more evident when using disk persistence with ehcache, since the full object graphs are serialized to disk. This could be easily improved (correct me if I'm wrong) by storing ONLY entity identifiers in the QueryKey instead of full entities, since all the query really needs is the identifier property. The memory usage would decrease dramatically. So far the workaround we've found is explicitly using restrictions that reference identifiers instead of properties in HQL queries, however this is not particularly elegant, and still leaves open the issue with Criteria queries. The same cannot be done without criteria.createCriteria() which generates an unnecessary join in most cases.