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Helo guys,

I dont know if this is just me or this is really what is expected.

This gave me hell of confusion in my project. Base on the API,

Quote:

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executeFind

public List executeFind(HibernateCallback action)
throws DataAccessException

Description copied from interface: HibernateOperations
Execute the specified action assuming that the result object is a List.

This is a convenience method for executing Hibernate find calls or queries within an action.

Specified by:
executeFind in interface HibernateOperations

Parameters:
action - calback object that specifies the Hibernate action
Returns:
a List result returned by the action, or null
Throws:
DataAccessException - in case of Hibernate errors

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when does executeFind return null? Im just confused because when I try to use this method with some query which I know wont return anything, the method returns an emply list. Am I wrong to expect that the method should return null?

link here: http://static.springsource.org/sprin...ateCallback%29

Thanks
-marckun

ps: this is minor confusion. hope to hear some feedback.

It returns null when you decides it should return null. You implement the HibernateCallback, so if you decide on a certain condition to return null that is valid.

Hibernate by default returns an empty list it basically never returns null for a query.