@Basic(fetch = FetchType.LAZY) does not work???

Question

Hello,

I use JPA (Hibernate) with Spring. When i want to lazy load a Stirng property i use this syntax:

@Lob
@Basic(fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
public String getHtmlSummary() {
    return htmlSummary;
}

But when i look at the sql that hibernate creates, it seems this property is not lazy loaded? I also use this class org.hibernate.tool.instrument.javassist.InstrumentTask in ANT script to instrument this property but it seems it does not work.

Please help me.

Khosro.

Answer 1

Lazy fetching only applies to references to other entities or collections of entities. It does not apply to values like String or int.

Answer 2

Hi, from the specification of JPA they say that even if you use annotate a property to be fetched lazily, this is not guaranteed to be applied, so the properties may or may not be loaded lazily (depends on the implementer of JPA), however if you specify that you should fetch them Eagerly then the JPA implementer must load them eagerly.

Bottom line: @Basic(fetch = FetchType.LAZY) may or may not work, depends on the JPA implementer.

Answer 3

Lazy Lob loading would require bytecode instrumentation to work properly, so it is not available by default in any JPA implementation I'm aware of.

Your best bet is to put the Lob into a separate entity, like HtmlSummary, and use a lazily loaded one-to-one association.