Hibernate: Partial lazy initialization?

Question

I have a many-to-many association defined like:

Parent.hbm.xml:

    <set name="children" table="child_parent_map" lazy="true">
        <cache usage="nonstrict-read-write" />
        <key column="parent_id" />
        <many-to-many class="Child">
            <column name="child_id" not-null="true" index="child_parent_by_child"/>
        </many-to-many>
    </set>

Child.hbm.xml:

    <set name="parents" table="child_parent_map" lazy="true">
        <cache usage="nonstrict-read-write" />
        <key column="child_id" />
        <many-to-many column="parent_id" class="Parent"  lazy="false"/>
    </set>

I am quite sure I am initializing Parent.children by walking the collection. Something like:

for(Child child : parent.getChildren()) {
    Hibernate.initialize(child.getAnotherProperty());
}

Parent has six children. However, in one session parent appears to have only five, and in another (2 seconds later, nothing changed in DB or in another session) - all six. Actually, I discovered it after detaching these entities from session with a custom cloner.

I thought that lazy collections are either completely initialized (i.e. all elements are), or not. Is it possible that somehow only a part of the collection was initialized? Can it be an issue with caching?

EDIT: This session handles a fairly large data set (a few thousands of entities). Is it possible that this is because some already-loaded entities got evicted from the session?

Have you set some value to the property "default_batch_fetch_size" ? — jpkroehling
– jpkroehling, Commented Mar 5, 2011 at 7:57
Could you post the code for Parent and Child? I'd start with looking at hashCode() and equals(). — Michal Bachman
– Michal Bachman, Commented Mar 7, 2011 at 21:13
Michal is right, you probably have something in hashCode() and/or equals() that causes your object to behave strangely. — Joshua Davis
– Joshua Davis, Commented Mar 8, 2011 at 11:06
I did have an ID-based equals and hashCode. When I removed it the issue disappeared. Thanks guys, feel free to post it as the answer. — Konrad Garus
– Konrad Garus, Commented Mar 8, 2011 at 11:18

Kdeveloper · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-16 23:29:46Z

1

Start by checking your hashCode() and equals() methods, incorrect implementation of these methods often cause this kind of behavior.

answered Mar 16, 2011 at 23:29

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