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

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

Comments inline:

--- Colin Yates <col...@gm...> wrote:

> Actually, althought the javadoc doesn't explicitly
> mention it (and is quite
> badly worded actually) load won't hit the database
> if your class is proxied.
> This is mentioned in the reference documentation
> (section 10.3) and is
> encapsulated in the
> org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultLoadEventListener.
> 
> Given these semantics are defined by Hibernate I am
> not really sure that
> Spring should change the behaviour as it would quite
> unintuitive.
> 
> To our original question, I believe even if the
> class *is* lazy loaded, load
> would still hit the database to confirm identity but
> that is an assumption
> and I haven't traced it through to verify that
> behaviour.  The Javadocs do
> make it clear that load should only be used for
> known persistent objects, if
> in doubt, use get.
> 

Ok cool, thanks for your help - I appreciate it.  

I can send you my code that gave me this error if
you'd like.

> Col
> 
> P.S.  I think I will write a couple of tests to
> verify this behaviour and
> will get back to you.

That'd be great.

Thanks again,

Bill



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