[Springframework-developer] Question/ potential patch for org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTemplate

[Bill S. <bil...@ya...>]

Hi,

I have a question about the load() methods on
hibernate3's HibernateTemplate.

Spring's javadoc for load() say that an exception will
be thrown if the object is not found.  However, from
what I understand, Hibernate 3 changed its default
behavior to lazy load all classes.  This means that if
you try to load an object with an ID that does not
exist, a Hibernate error is not thrown because you get
a proxy to the object that does not exist.  It is only
upon the first method call to that proxy that
Hibernate's ObjectNotFoundException is thrown.  I
would think that in Spring's load() methods should
force initilization of that object so that trying to
load an object that does not exist immediately throws
the correct Spring exception.

I have attached a patch that should do the trick.  I
have never made a patch before, nor have I ever looked
through the source of spring or hibernate, so please
excuse any stupid mistakes :-)

Thanks for a great product,

Bill Six

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