hibernate and jpa weirdness; unexpected lazy fetching - java

I'm using a rather old version of Hibernate (3.2.4) so it's possible this is related to that. Unfortunately the project requirements prevent me from upgrading.
I have a class Foo with many-to-one association to Bar. The association is flagged:
lazy="false" fetch="join"
Now when I do something like:
em.find(Foo.class, id);
I get the expected result: a single statement joining the FOO table with the BAR table. However, when I try something like:
em.createQuery("select f from Foo where f.id = :id")
.setParameter("id", id)
.getSingleResult();
I get the single join followed by an additional select query against BAR. The second query seems to be entirely superfluous; all the data needed to eagerly populate an instance of Foo should have been available from the initial join. It looks roughly like this:
select f.id, f.xyz, ..., b.id, b.xyz, ...
from foo f
join bar b on b.id = f.bar_id
where f.id = ?
select b.id, b.xyz, ...
from bar b
where b.id = ?
Any thoughts?

Hibernate doesn't respect fetch = "join" when executing HQL queries. From the documentation:
The fetch strategy defined in the mapping document affects:
retrieval via get() or load()
retrieval that happens implicitly when an association is navigated
Criteria queries
HQL queries if subselect fetching is used
In the case of HQL queries you have to use left join fetch:
em.createQuery("select f from Foo f left join fetch f.bar where f.id = :id")
.setParameter("id", id)
.getSingleResult();

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Join in #NamedQuery: Unexpected token ON

In Hibernate, I created a query using JOIN to join two tables. The query executes fine in Oracles SQL Developer. However, if I add it to a #NamedQuery, the server starts with this error:
Error in named query: loadFooByAnother: org.hibernate.hql.internal.ast.QuerySyntaxException: unexpected token: ON near line 1, column xxx
My named query is:
SELECT foo FROM FooTable foo JOIN BarTable bar
ON foo.something=bar.somethingId
WHERE bar.anotherId=:another
Is it not possible to use JOIN .. ON syntax in Hibernate?
You need to use the with directive, if you use HQL:
SELECT foo
FROM FooEntity foo
JOIN foo.bar b with b.name = :name
WHERE foo.prop = :prop
This is for supplying a custom ON clause. From your example, judging from how you joined tables, I think you tried to execute a native SQL using a #NamedQuery.
If you want to run a native SQL query, you have to use #NamedNativeQuery instead.
If you want to use HQL, you need to use Entities and to join Entity associations (not tables).
If you use JPQL then the with directive has to be replaced by the on directive, but again, you need to navigate entity associations, meaning you have to map them first.

NamedNativeQuery from two tables

Is it possible to create class annotated with #Entity that in #NamedNativeQuery joins two different tables? For example native query is something like:
SELECT a.id as id, b.name as name
FROM tableA a
JOIN tableB b on a.id = b.id
WHERE a.id = :someValue and b.id = :someValue
What should I write in #Table annotation in this case?
Yes it's possible. The key is to use the #SqlResultSetMapping annotation. See The javadoc for #SqlResultSetMapping

JPQL table join query

How do I get JPA & JPQL to pass a complete join query to the RDBMS? For example,
SELECT e
FROM Employee e
WHERE a.runkey = e.runkey
AND e.middle = 'M'
AND a.state = 'MA'
With the following Employee class
#Entity
public class Employee implements Serializable {
blah ... blah
#OneToOne
#JoinColumn(
name = "runkey",
referencedColumnName = "runkey",
insertable=false, updatable=false)
private Address address;
}
and the JPQL,
SELECT e
FROM Employee e
INNER JOIN FETCH e.address AS a
WHERE a.state = :state
AND e.middle = :middle
I am able to get Hibernate JPA to pull the data as expected.
However, eclipselink croaks that it cannot traverse associated field "address".
If so, how then should I design the Employee entity and how should I phrase the JPQL in order to get eclipselink to execute a table join with WHERE filters on both tables?
(Rant: Otherwise Eclipselink JPA is no better than JDO!!!)
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Further edit: Does this post mean anything to my case ....
https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1568659
The problem is that you are trying to alias a join fetch which is not allowed according to the JPQL specs. Hibernate allows this anyway.
You can still obtain the desired behavior with EclipseLink using query hints.
Take a look at the following posts:
jpa fetch join query
EclipseLink JPQL (Glassfish v3): join fetch syntax problem?
The following link can also be useful:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseLink/Examples/JPA/QueryOptimization

Join two un-related tables using JPA EntityManager

I need to join two JPA entities on a property when there is no FK/PK relation between the two.
I am using Hibernate and can use HQL query like this
select foo, bar from FooEntity as foo, BarEntity as bar
where foo.someothercol = 'foo' and foo.somecol = bar.somecol
However, I want to avoid dependency on Hibernate and use EntityManager instead.
Please help.
Your query is valid JPQL and does not use Hibernate specific functionality (just space between bar and from is missing). In JPA 2.0 specification (4.4.5 Joins) this is explained with following words:
An inner join may be implicitly specified by the use of a cartesian
product in the FROM clause and a join condition in the WHERE clause.
In the absence of a join condition, this reduces to the cartesian
product.
The main use case for this generalized style of join is when
a join condition does not involve a foreign key relationship that is
mapped to an entity relationship. Example: SELECT c FROM Customer c, Employee e WHERE c.hatsize = e.shoesize
Main difference to your query is that your select contains two types of entities. Result of query is List of Object[]. Order of elements in array is same as in select
statement. Following works in your case:
String query =
"select foo, bar from FooEntity as foo, BarEntity as bar "+
"where foo.someothercol = 'foo' and foo.somecol = bar.somecol";
List<Object[]> results = em.createQuery(query).getResultList();
for (Object[] fooAndBar: results) {
FooEntity foo = (FooEntity) fooAndBar[0];
BarEntity bar = (BarEntity) fooAndBar[1];
//do something with foo and bar
}

How to build HQL query, thats joins subtables marked LAZY, automatically?

I have some entity:
public class Album extends GenericAuditedEntity {
#OneToMany(fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
private Set<Item> itemSet = new HashSet<Item>();
}
And when i run HQL like this:
em.createQuery("select a from Album a").getResults()
it produses many SQL queries:
One for select data from Album's table. Smth like this: select .... from Album_table;
And one query for each fetched row, for selecting items. Smth like this:
select .... from Item_table iwhere i.Album_id = :Album_id;
But when i run em.createQuery("
select a.id, b.id
from Album a
left join Item i
").getResults()
it produses one SQL query. But it's result is list of some parameters, that i need put into the entities manually.
How can i build HQL with joins automatically and automatically put the results to the entities? Is it possible?
You need to use join fetch:
em.createQuery("select a.id, b.id from Album a left join fetch Item i ").getResults();
Note that there are certain side effects to that, described in detail the above link.
If you are using join fetch then you don't need the IDs, you can retrieve the Entity as Hibernate will also populate the association in it's first-level cache
em.createQuery("select a from Album a left join fetch a.itemSet").getResultList();
However if you are retrieving the IDs but want populated Objects/Entities then consider using a Constructor
em.createQuery("select new com.xxx.AlbumItem(a.id, b.id) from Album a left join fetch a.itemSet b").getResultList();
dont use lazy fetching. set fetch type to eager

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