can FetchType.EAGER be used when loading an entity?

[liudan2005]

I have an entity with all its ref attibutes lazy loaded. this is fine when in browing mode. However when I need to load all its perperties, there seem no way I can do it. I wanna do something like em.find(Foo.class,id,FetchType.EAGER). Are there any other ways of doing it?

[petergoldstein]

Assuming you've got an entity bean type User with a properties association and an id field on it, I believe you should be able to create the appropriate query as follows:

em.createQuery("select u from User as u left join fetch u.properties where id = :id")

For more info see section 7.3 of the Hibernate EntityManager guide

[liudan2005]

Thanks a lot Peter. It solved my problem.