One-to-one association must return null instead of proxy (or actual object). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: HHH-3970 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-3970 Project: Hibernate Core Issue Type: Improvement Affects Versions: 3.3.1 Reporter: Sandeep Vaid Priority: Critical In hibernate, presently one-to-one associations are fetched non-lazily... I know that this is done because, hibernate requires to fire 1 sql to find whether proxy can be created or not... and if it has to fire 1 sql, then why not to load one-to-one object itself in 1 sql instead of creating proxy of it (in 1 sql). Consider my scenario.. Product has one-to-one with ProductBasic which has one-to-one with ProductTerm Now i just queried for List of Products and i got say 300 product records.. (in 1 sql query) In this case i don;t require ProductBasic and ProductTerm.... but as these are one-to-one associations, there are compulsorily non-lazily fetched. Thus another 300 + 300 select queries are fired to get ProductBasic and ProductTerm which is surely unacceptable as there are 600 extra sql's getting fired.. The situation may become worst if i have many one-to-one associations in my domain tree. I think hibernate code must be changed so that one-to-one associations should be not compulsorily non-lazily fetched.... One way i could think of it is, if user has not asked to fetch one-to-one association then instead of loading one-to-one object (or creating proxy) simply null should be returned without firing any SQL... Later when user asks for this one-to-one association, now fire 1 sql to get this association.. The major advantage of this approach is that if user has not asked for one-to-one association, no extra sql (unnecessary) queries will be fired... (specially when retriving parent collection - e.q our scenario described above).. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/secure/Administrators.... - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira