[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (HHH-2599) Inconsistent behaviour with Cascade Refresh and lazy loaded collections

Inconsistent behaviour with Cascade Refresh and lazy loaded collections ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: HHH-2599 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-2599 Project: Hibernate Core Issue Type: Bug Components: core Affects Versions: 3.2.3 Environment: 3.2.3, hsqldb/mysql Reporter: Guy Chua Attachments: cascadeTest.zip According to the specs for session.refresh(), the state of the given instance will be re-read from the database. I have a model 'Company' that has 2 lazy collections, departments and employees. Snippet of class Company -------------------------------------------------------------------- @OneToMany (mappedBy="company", cascade={ CascadeType.ALL }) // POINT 1 private Set<Department> departments; // POINT 1 @OneToMany (mappedBy="company", cascade={ CascadeType.ALL }) // POINT 2 private Set<Employee> employees; // POINT 2 Snippet of class CascadeTestRunner -------------------------------------------------------------------- public void doRefreshTest() { session = sessionFactory.openSession(); session.getTransaction().begin(); Company loadedCompany = (Company)session.get(Company.class, companyId); logger.debug(loadedCompany); // session.refresh(loadedCompany); // POINT A session.close(); Set<Department> loadedDepartments = loadedCompany.getDepartments(); logger.debug("TEST for LAZY DEPARTMENTS [START]"); for (Department tmpDepartment : loadedDepartments) { logger.debug(tmpDepartment); // POINT B } logger.debug("TEST for LAZY DEPARTMENTS [END]"); Set<Employee> loadedEmployees = loadedCompany.getEmployees(); logger.debug("TEST for LAZY EMPLOYEES [START]"); for (Employee tmpEmployee : loadedEmployees) { logger.debug(tmpEmployee); // POINT C } logger.debug("TEST for LAZY EMPLOYEES [END]"); } If I run the above code, Point B will give me LazyInitializationException which is the expected behavior. But if i uncomment POINT A, the LazyInitializationException happens at POINT C instead of POINT B. Why should POINT B pass and POINT C fail? Furthermore, with POINT A still uncommented and when I swap the position of POINT 1 with POINT 2, the LazyInitializationException happens at POINT B now. I am wondering why the position of the fields produce the exception at a different location. What happens when a lazy collection annotated with CascadeType.Refresh is refreshed? I am getting varied results, sometimes the collection is initialized, sometimes it is not. Is it supposed to cascade the refresh to lazy elements in the first place? Hope someone can shed some light on this. Test Results ------------------ 1. LazyInitializationException at POINT B @OneToMany (mappedBy="company", cascade={ CascadeType.ALL }) // POINT 1 private Set<Department> departments; // POINT 1 @OneToMany (mappedBy="company", cascade={ CascadeType.ALL }) // POINT 2 private Set<Employee> employees; // POINT 2 // session.refresh(loadedCompany); // POINT A logger.debug(tmpDepartment); // POINT B logger.debug(tmpEmployee); // POINT C 2. LazyInitializationException at POINT C @OneToMany (mappedBy="company", cascade={ CascadeType.ALL }) // POINT 1 private Set<Department> departments; // POINT 1 @OneToMany (mappedBy="company", cascade={ CascadeType.ALL }) // POINT 2 private Set<Employee> employees; // POINT 2 session.refresh(loadedCompany); // POINT A logger.debug(tmpDepartment); // POINT B logger.debug(tmpEmployee); // POINT C 2. LazyInitializationException at POINT B when positions of POINT 1 and POINT 2 are swapped @OneToMany (mappedBy="company", cascade={ CascadeType.ALL }) // POINT 2 private Set<Employee> employees; // POINT 2 @OneToMany (mappedBy="company", cascade={ CascadeType.ALL }) // POINT 1 private Set<Department> departments; // POINT 1 session.refresh(loadedCompany); // POINT A logger.debug(tmpDepartment); // POINT B logger.debug(tmpEmployee); // POINT C