[FIXED] Hibernate: best practice to pull all lazy collections

Issue

What I have:

@Entity
public class MyEntity {
  @OneToMany(cascade = CascadeType.ALL, fetch = FetchType.LAZY, orphanRemoval = true)
  @JoinColumn(name = "myentiy_id")
  private List<Address> addreses;

  @OneToMany(cascade = CascadeType.ALL, fetch = FetchType.LAZY, orphanRemoval = true)
  @JoinColumn(name = "myentiy_id")
  private List<Person> persons;

  //....
}

public void handle() {

   Session session = createNewSession();
   MyEntity entity = (MyEntity) session.get(MyEntity.class, entityId);
   proceed(session); // FLUSH, COMMIT, CLOSE session!

   Utils.objectToJson(entity); //TROUBLES, because it can't convert to json lazy collections
}

What a problem:

The problem is that I can't pull lazy collection after session has been closed. But I also can't not close a session in proceed method.

What a solution (coarse solution):

a) Before session is closed, force hibernate to pull lazy collections

entity.getAddresses().size();
entity.getPersons().size();

....

b) Maybe more ellegant way is to use @Fetch(FetchMode.SUBSELECT) annotation

Question:

What is a best practice/common way/more ellegant way to do it? Means convert my object to JSON.

Solution

Use Hibernate.initialize() within @Transactional to initialize lazy objects.

 start Transaction 
      Hibernate.initialize(entity.getAddresses());
      Hibernate.initialize(entity.getPersons());
 end Transaction 

Now out side of the Transaction you are able to get lazy objects.

entity.getAddresses().size();
entity.getPersons().size();

Answered By - Prabhakaran Ramaswamy