[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (HHH-2879) add an actual api for loading an entity by natural candidate key (mapped natural-id)

add an actual api for loading an entity by natural candidate key (mapped natural-id) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Key: HHH-2879 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-2879 Project: Hibernate ORM Issue Type: Improvement Components: core Reporter: Steve Ebersole Assignee: Steve Ebersole Fix For: 4.1.0 Currently, natural-id "loading' is only available through some incomplete criteria query hackery. Would like to expose a proper API for performing natural-id loading. Eventually would be great to have this coordinated with the effort to cleanup the Session API and so have a unified way to load entities. (NOTE : the contract name I am using for the time being is EntityLoadAccess, although i am not tied to this). - see HHH-2896 Something like: Session.getNaturalKeyEntityLoadAccess( MyEntity.class ).get( key )