Hibernate: one-to-one lazy loading, optional = false

Question

I faced the problem that one-to-one lazy loading doesn't work in hibernate. I've already solved it, but still don't properly understand what happens.

My code (lazy loading doesn't work here, when I pull Person - Address is also fetched):

@Entity
public class Person{

  @Id
  @SequenceGenerator(name = "person_sequence", sequenceName = "sq_person")
  @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.SEQUENCE, generator = "person_sequence")
  @Column(name = "id")
  private long personID;

  @OneToOne(mappedBy="person", cascade=CascadeType.ALL, fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
  private Adress address;
  //.. getters, setters
}

@Entity
public class Address {

  @Id
  @Column(name="id", unique=true, nullable=false)
  @GeneratedValue(generator="gen")
  @GenericGenerator(name="gen", strategy="foreign", parameters=@Parameter(name="property", value="person"))
  private long personID;

  @PrimaryKeyJoinColumn
  @OneToOne
  private FileInfo person;
}

But: if I add optional=false in OneToOne relationship, lazy loading works fine!

@OneToOne(mappedBy="person", cascade=CascadeType.ALL, optional = false, fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
private Adress address;

Question/Entreaty: please, explain to me how optional=false annotation helps to achieve lazy loading.

P.S. I've read posts post1 and post2, and understand why simple OneToOne can't be lazy, but I still can't grasp optional=false magic.

Answer 1

If the association is optional, Hibernate has no way of knowing if an address exists for a given person without issuing a query. So it can't populate the address field with a proxy, because there could be no address referencing the person, and it can't populate it with null, because there might be an address referencing the person.

When you make the association mandatory (i.e. optional=false), it trusts you and assumes that an address exists, since the association is mandatory. So it directly populates the address field with a proxy, knowing that there is an address referencing the person.