How to fetch all data in one query

Question

I have multiple entities that are queried via JPA2 Criteria Query.

I am able to join two of these entities and get the result at once:

CriteriaBuilder criteriaBuilder = em.getCriteriaBuilder();
CriteriaQuery<LadungRgvorschlag> criteriaQuery = criteriaBuilder.createQuery(LadungRgvorschlag.class);
Root<LadungRgvorschlag> from = criteriaQuery.from(LadungRgvorschlag.class);
Join<Object, Object> ladung = from.join("ladung");

from.fetch("ladung", JoinType.INNER);

Then i try to join an additional table like that:

ladung.join("ladBerechnet");
ladung.fetch("ladBerechnet", JoinType.LEFT);

i get the following error:

org.hibernate.QueryException: query specified join fetching, but the owner of the fetched association was not present in the select list [FromElement{explicit,not a collection join,fetch join,fetch non-lazy properties,classAlias=generatedAlias3,role=null,tableName=ladberechnet,tableAlias=ladberechn3_,origin=ladungen ladung1_,columns={ladung1_.id ,className=de.schuechen.beans.tms.master.LadBerechnet}}] [select generatedAlias0 from de.schuechen.beans.tms.master.LadungRgvorschlag as generatedAlias0 inner join generatedAlias0.ladung as generatedAlias1 inner join generatedAlias1.ladBerechnet as generatedAlias2 left join fetch generatedAlias1.ladBerechnet as generatedAlias3 inner join fetch generatedAlias0.ladung as generatedAlias4 where ( generatedAlias0.erledigt is null ) and ( generatedAlias0.belegart in (:param0, :param1) ) and ( generatedAlias1.fzadresse in (:param2, :param3) ) and ( generatedAlias1.zudatum<=:param4 ) and ( 1=1 ) order by generatedAlias0.belegart asc, generatedAlias1.fzadresse asc, generatedAlias1.zudatum asc, generatedAlias1.zulkw asc]

How can i tell JPA/Hibernate, that it should select all the entities at once?

Answer 1

With JPA 'some dialects of JPA' you can chain join fetches, but I don't think you can/should do both a join and a join fetch.

For instance, if we have a Program that has a one-to-many relation to a Reward that has a relation to a Duration, the following JPQL would get a specific instance with the rewards and duration pre-fetched:

SELECT DISTINCT
    program
FROM
    Program _program
        LEFT JOIN FETCH
    _program.rewards _reward
        LEFT JOIN FETCH
    _reward.duration _duration
WHERE
    _program.id = :programId

}

With the equivalent Criteria code:

CriteriaBuilder criteriaBuilder = entityManager.getCriteriaBuilder();
CriteriaQuery<Program> criteriaQuery = criteriaBuilder.createQuery(Program.class);
Root<Program> root = criteriaQuery.from(Program.class);

Fetch<Program, Reward> reward = root.fetch("rewards", JoinType.LEFT);
Fetch<Reward, Duration> duration = reward.fetch("duration", JoinType.LEFT);

criteriaQuery.where(criteriaBuilder.equal(root.get("id"), programId));

TypedQuery<program> query = entityManager.createQuery(criteriaQuery);

return query.getSingleResult();

Note that the intermediate variables reward and duration are not needed here, but they're just for informational purposes. root.fetch("rewards", JoinType.LEFT).fetch("duration", JoinType.LEFT) would have the same effect.