Disable Lazy Loading in Hibernate

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Jonah picture Jonah · Mar 29, 2011 · Viewed 23.5k times · Source

How do I disable lazy loading in Hibernate? I am using persistence annotations, not an hbm xml file.

I am fetching a single object by ID and want all properties loaded. The session is closed before I use the object.

Thanks!

Answer

Sean Adkinson picture Sean Adkinson · Mar 29, 2011

You need to annotate the properties that you want non-lazy loaded with FetchType.EAGER

   @ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.EAGER)

You see, it isn't the object that you are loading that is lazy loaded. Rather, that object's associations are lazy, and you need to tell them not to be if that is your desired behavior.

If those objects also have associations that you want loaded eagerly, you need to annotate them as well.

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