getting to an association w/o using lazy=false in hibernate

[mmasters]

I realize this might not be the right place to ask this, but I thought I might give it a shot.

Is there a way to get to an association from an hql query? Currently I have lazy set to false. I don't want to have the caller of my dao method responsible for opening a session to get to a reference. How can i make sure the caller will have the reference available without making the association non-lazy. I assume I can write a HQL query to ensure the association is there.


thanks in advance,
Mike

[Costin Leau]

Yes - you can use the FETCH keyword,

from Company LEFT JOIN FETCH company.employees WHERE company = :name

See the Hibernate reference documentation - it explains this and what other means you have to eagerly fetch the associations of an entity.

[mmasters]

Thank you very much!!!!

that was exactly what I was looking for.