Entity refresh using spring data jpa module

[maverickthinker]

How to force an entity to refresh in the same session as it is saved so that child entities that are mostly reference data type can be lazy loaded. I think in the traditional jpa route we could probably do something like this:

 entityManager.refresh(entity);

How do we achieve this with a repository implementation of the spring data jpa module?

[Oliver Gierke]

Just add the custom implementation method as described in [0]. In your implementation class just refer to the EntityManager via @PersistenceContext. If you think this should be inside JpaRepository, feel free to open a ticket in our JIRA.

[0] http://static.springsource.org/sprin...mplementations

[maverickthinker]

The reason I was wanting to do this was when I persist a new entity that has references to detached associations (reference data type) the only way to get those attached again was to do a cascading refresh. My question is would it make sense for the framework to go ahead & do the refresh right after persist so that the entity returned back has all the associations refreshed down the chain?