How do I lazy load a nested collection? - jpa

I have an entity Parent and a relation #OneToMany to another entity Child. The collection children is set to lazy loading.
#Entity
class Parent{
#Id
String parentId;
#OneToMany(mappedBy="parent",fetch=FetchType.LAZY)
List<Child> children;
}
#Entity
class Child{
#Id
String childId;
#ManyToOne
#JoinColumn(name="parentId")
Parent parent;
}
List<Parent> loadParents() {
QParent qParent = QParent.parent;
List<Parent> parentList = query.select(qParent).from(qParent).fetch();
return parentList;
}
#Transactional
void test(){
List<Parent> parentList = loadParents();
for(Child child:parentList.getChildren()){
child.getChildId();
}
}
I get the famous
org.hibernate.LazyInitializationException: failed to lazily initialize
a collection of role ... could not initialize proxy - no Session
exception in the test() method on the line where I access the children list.
I don't want to change the fetch type annotation in the entity.
How do I access the child entities?

I found the culprit. The transaction management was disabled.
The #Transactional annotation was missing from the test method.
To enable transaction management, put this in application-context.xml:
<tx:annotation-driven />
There is nothing wrong with the code, but the configuration was incomplete. To eagerly load nested collections all we need is an embracing transaction.
Turning on debug logging for org.springframework.orm and org.hibernate helped me to identify the source of the issue.
Similar question and answer: LazyInitializationException in JPA and Hibernate

Related

EAGER loading with one select doesn't work in Spring Data JPA

there is already a similar post. Since this is already older, I hope something has changed since then (How does the FetchMode work in Spring Data JPA)
I would like to run all jpa repository#findById in one select, if the relationship is marked with EAGER. However, spring data ignores the EAGER specification and the FETCH.JOIN annotation from hibernate.
Is there a generic solution that all findById queries are executed in one select?
I wouldn't want to write a separate JPL or EntityGraph for each query. Does anyone know a generic solution?
JpaReposistory
The easiest option would be to write a JpaRepository<T, Id>. This is still a custom repository. However, you do not have to write so much code. You mainly have to write a repository interface for each relevant class and annotate the findById(Long id) method with a graph. The advantage is that if you edit your entity, the repository method will not need any changes because you define the entity graph within the entity class itself.
#Entity
#NamedEntityGraph(name = "Department.detail",
attributeNodes = #NamedAttributeNode("employees"))
public class Department {
#Id
#GeneratedValue
private Long id;
private String name;
#OneToMany(fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
private List<Employee> employees;
// ...
}
public interface DepartmentRepository extends JpaRepository<Department, Long> {
#EntityGraph(value = "Department.detail", type = EntityGraphType.LOAD)
List<Department> findById(Long id);
}
As Spring data ignores the #Fetch(Fetchmode.JOIN) annotation or the information fetch = FetchType.EAGER, you cannot influence the join how you want it to be within the entity itself.
JPQL Query Where You Need It
Another option can be considered as a bad software engineering style: You can call the database queries directly where you need them. This means that you execute the code which you would usually write in the repository.
public ClassWithQueryResults {
#PersistenceContext
private EntityManager entityManager;
public void methodWhereYouNeedYourResults() {
TypedQuery<Department> query = entityManager.createQuery(
"SELECT DISTINCT d FROM Department d LEFT JOIN d.employees e",
Department.class);
List<Department> departments = query.getResultList();
// ...
}
}
Repository With JPQL, Generics and Reflection
Taking the previously suggested idea, you can create a custom repository which is valid for all your entities. The first step would be to create an attribute in your entity class in which you store the attribute which should be fetched.
public class Department extends AbstractEntity {
public static void String ATTRIBUTE_TO_FETCH = "employees";
...
}
With some tweaking, this can be extended to an array/list of all the fields which should be fetched. As this attribute is directly in your entity classes, the chance for any mistakes and future effort is low. Obviously, this attribute should have the same name in all your entities.
The next step would be to create the repository. I provide an example with the findAll() method. You have to pass it only the class name of the entities you want to have and the generics and reflection do the rest. (Consider what you want to do with the exceptions.)
public <T> List<T> findAll(Class<T> tClass)
throws NoSuchFieldException, IllegalAccessException {
String className = tClass.getSimpleName();
String attributeToFetch = (String)
tClass.getDeclaredField("ATTRIBUTE_TO_FETCH").get(null);
String queryString = String.format("SELECT DISTINCT p FROM %s p LEFT JOIN p.%s c",
className, attributeToFetch);
TypedQuery<T> query = entityManager.createQuery(queryString, tClass);
return query.getResultList();
}
Depending on how you want to implement this, the modification/generation of a query through simple manipulation of a String can offer the possibility of SQL injection attacks.

Kotlin inheritance and JPA

I'm trying to implement inheritance with Kotlin and JPA. My abstract base class (annotated with #Entity) holds the ID (annotated with #Id and #GeneratedValue) and other metadata, like createDate, etc. I'm getting several errors from Hibernate, one for each field except the ID:
org.hibernate.tuple.entity.PojoEntityTuplizer - HHH000112: Getters of lazy classes cannot be final: com.example.BaseEntity.createDate
As I've read I need to include the open keyword for each property.
I have 3 questions regarding this:
Why do I have to do that in the superclass, and don't need in subclass? I'm not overriding those properties.
Why isn't it complaining about the ID?
It seems to work without the open keyword, then why is the error logged?
Edit:
#Entity
#Inheritance(strategy = InheritanceType.JOINED)
abstract class BaseEntity(
#Id #GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY) val id: Long = 0,
val createdAt: Instant = Instant.now()
)
#Entity
class SubClass(
val someProperty: String = ""
) : BaseEntity()
I'm using the JPA plugin for Gradle, which I believe creates the noarg constructor, that's why I don't have to specify everything nullable.
Thank you!
The logged error has to do with lazy loading.
Hibernate extends entities at runtime to enable it. It is done by intercepting an access to properties when an entity is loaded lazily.
Kotlin has flipped the rules and all classes are final by default there. It is the reason why we're advised to add an open keyword.
If a property is not open hibernate cannot intercept access to it because final methods cannot be overridden. Hence the error.
Why isn't it complaining about the ID?
Because #Id is always loaded. There is no need to intercept access to it.
It seems to work without the open keyword, then why is the error logged?
The key word here is seems. It may introduce subtle bugs.
Consider the following #Entity:
#Entity
public class Book {
#Id
private Long id;
private String title;
public final Long getId() {
return id;
}
public void setId(Long id) {
this.id = id;
}
public final String getTitle() {
return title;
}
public void setTitle(String title) {
this.title = title;
}
}
And the #Test:
#Test
public void test() {
EntityManager entityManager = entityManagerFactory.createEntityManager();
entityManager.getTransaction().begin();
// signal here
Book book = new Book();
book.setId(1L);
book.setTitle("myTitle");
entityManager.persist(book);
// noise
entityManager.getTransaction().commit();
entityManager.close();
entityManager = entityManagerFactory.createEntityManager();
entityManager.getTransaction().begin();
// signal
Book reference = entityManager.getReference(Book.class, 1L);
String title = reference.getTitle();
assertNull(title); // passes
entityManager.getTransaction().commit();
entityManager.close();
}
This test passes but it should not (and fails if getTitle is not final).
This would be hard to notice
Why do I have to do that in the superclass, and don't need in subclass? I'm not overriding those properties.
Looks like Hibernate gives up when it sees final #Entity.
Add open to SubClass and you will the precious:
2019-05-02 23:27:27.500 ERROR 5609 --- [ main] o.h.tuple.entity.PojoEntityTuplizer : HHH000112: Getters of lazy classes cannot be final: com.caco3.hibernateanswer.SubClass.someProperty
See also:
final methods on entity silently breaks lazy proxy loading
How to avoid initializing HibernateProxy when invoking toString() on it? - my old question (note that Hibernate uses Byte Buddy these days).
PS
Did you forget to include #MappedSuperclass on BaseEntity?
Without the annotation it should fail with something like:
org.hibernate.AnnotationException: No identifier specified for entity: com.caco3.hibernateanswer.SubClass

jpa repository delete children without loading parent collection

I am trying to delete a Child Entity using Child's Repository. I do not want to load the whole Collection of Child in Parent and remove a Child from there because the collection is huge in some cases and can cause memory issues. But after I delete a child when I load the Parent using Parent Repository I get an error that says "Deleted Entity passed to persists".
#Entity
#Table(name="USR")
public class User {
#OneToMany(cascade = CascadeType.ALL, fetch = FetchType.LAZY, mappedBy = "user", orphanRemoval=true)
private Set<UserApplication> userApplications = new HashSet<UserApplication>();
}
#Entity
#Table(name="USR_2_APL")
public class UserApplication {
#ManyToOne
#JoinColumn(name = "USR_SK")
private User user;
}
#Test
public void testDeleteUserApp() {
List<UserApplication> removedUserApp = userApplicationRepository.findByUserSkAndApplicationSk(1, 5);
userApplicationRepository.delete(removedUserApp);
//*****This is where I see an error that says
//org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaObjectRetrievalFailureException: deleted entity passed to persist: [UserApplication#<null>]; nested exception is javax.persistence.EntityNotFoundException
userRepository.findByUserLoginName(loginId);
}
I donot know if this will help you but I have something similar and this is what I do to delete the data...
In the repository I have a method like this:-
#Transactional
public Long deleteByByUserSkAndApplicationSk(int userSk, int applicationSk);
The output of the method is the number of rows deleted.
Then you can directly call the method where ever you want to delete.

how to filter out entity object inside entity in rest api

I am using Spring Boot to implement rest api. There are three entities SeqTb, PairTb, and GroupTb and they are nested. SeqTb has manytoone with PairTb. PairTb has onetomany relationship with SeqTb and also manytoone with GroupTb.
//SeqTb.java
#Entity
#Table(name="SEQ_TB")
public class SeqTb implements Serializable {
.......
#ManyToOne
#JoinColumn(name="PAIR_ID")
private PairTb pairTb;
......
}
// PairTb.java
#Entity
#Table(name="PAIR_TB")
#NamedQuery(name="PairTb.findAll", query="SELECT p FROM PairTb p")
public class PairTb implements Serializable {
#ManyToOne
#JoinColumn(name="GROUP_ID")
private GroupTb groupTb;
#OneToMany(mappedBy="pairTb", cascade=CascadeType.ALL)
private List<SeqTb> seqTbs;
}
//GroupId.java
#Entity
#Table(name="GROUP_TB")
public class GroupTb implements Serializable {
//bi-directional many-to-one association to PairTb
#OneToMany(mappedBy="groupTb", cascade=CascadeType.ALL)
private List<PairTb> pairTbs;
}
In my controller GET request with analysisId was handled in the following way:
#RequestMapping(
value = "/api/seqs/{analysis_id}",
method = RequestMethod.GET,
produces = MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE)
public ResponseEntity<SeqTb> getSeqByAnalysisId(#PathVariable("analysis_id") String analysis_id) {
SeqTb seq = seqService.findByAnalysisId(analysis_id);
return new ResponseEntity(seq, HttpStatus.OK);
}
I also create a bean class SeqServiceBean that extends the interface SeqService which in turn calls methods from the following JPA repository for query.
//SeqRepository.java
#Repository
public interface SeqRepository extends JpaRepository<SeqTb, Integer> {
#Override
public List<SeqTb> findAll();
public List<SeqTb> findByAnalysisId(String analysisId);
}
When I query a SeqTb object with SeqTb.PairTb == null, the api works just fine. However, if the analysisId I put in the url belongs to a SeqTb record that associates with a pairId which in turn belongs to a groupId, the program would go nuts. Below is the output, the first part output is correct (bold text). After that it keeps printing PairTb and GroupTb in loops (repeating keywords pairTb, groupTb).
{"rowId":8,"analysisId":"cce8d2c2-a6dc-4ee9-ba97-768f058abb50","analyteCode":"D","center":"UCSC",
"pairTb":{"rowId":4,"pairCode":"01ad975d-c2ed-4e4d-bd3b-c9512fc9073c","groupTb":{"rowId":1,"groupName":"PAWG_pilot-50","pairTbs":[{"rowId":1,"pairCode":"00ad0ffe-2105-4829-a495-1c2aceb5bb31","groupTb":{"rowId":1,"groupName":"PAWG_pilot-50","pairTbs":
Meanwhile I got lots of errors from tomcat server:
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: getOutputStream() has already been called for this response
at org.apache.catalina.connector.Response.getWriter(Response.java:565) ~[tomcat-embed-core-8.0.32.jar:8.0.32]
at org.apache.catalina.connector.ResponseFacade.getWriter(ResponseFacade.java:212) ~[tomcat-embed-core-8.0.32.jar:8.0.32]
How do I ignore the nested entity object inside an entity and get only the meaning columns?
You can also annotate a property with #JsonIgnore in order to not output that field.
Found the solution. Created a value object that only contains the specific columns from entity and leave out the nested entity object. And it works.

confused about Lazy loading

While trying to do some tests on lazy loading, to check if i'm understanding it well, i got totally confused.
Here's the entities i'm using on my test:
#Entity
public class Family {
#Id
private int id;
#OneToMany(mappedBy="family", fetch=FetchType.LAZY)
private Set<Person> members;
//getters & setters
public String toString(){
String s="";
for(Person p:getMembers()){
s+=p.getFirstName();
}
return s;
}
}
#Entity
public class Person implements Comparable<Person>{
#Id
private int id;
private String firstName;
private String lastName;
#ManyToOne
private Family family;
//getters &setters
}
here's my main method:
public static void main(String[] args) {
factory = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory(PERSISTENCE_UNIT_NAME);
em = factory.createEntityManager();
Query q = em.createQuery("select f from Family f");
List<Family> families= q.getResultList();
em.clear();
em.close();
factory.close();
for(Family f:families){
System.out.println(f);
}
}
What i understood from lazy loading, is that if an attribute is marked to be fetched lazily, and doesn't get accessed while it's managed, it won't be loaded in memory and any attempt to access it later won't work. Now what confuses me is that the test described above doesn't have any problem when accessing the lazy members attribute through the detached Family list, even after closing the EM and the EMF ! ... Is that normal? Am-i miss-understanding the lazy loading concept?
Note : I'm using a J2SE environment with an embedded DB. My provider is EclipseLink
Thanks in Advance
George
Check that your toString method is not triggered before the factory is closed, such as if the entity is being logged. I would not recommend triggering relationship in a toString method as this is error prone and can be triggered unexpectedly. Turning on EclipseLink logging will help show you where it gets accessed in the factory's lifecycle, assuming it is not part of the problem.
Ensure that you are using the eclipselink agent, or using static weaving. If you are using neither, then LAZY will not be weaved, and you will have EAGER.
Also EclipseLink supports access to LAZY relationships after the EntityManager is closed.
Although not after the factory is closed. However if the object was in the cache, then it may work after being closed as well. Also, if you have another factory open on the same persistence unit, then the persistence unit is still open.
It might be because the JPA provider is not required to use lazy initialization. It is not a must requirement for a JPA provider but a hint.
The JPA is required to eagerly fetch data when FetchType.EAGER is specified, but is not required to lazily fetch data when FetchType.LAZY is specified.