No session proxy in hibernate and spring

Question

I am creating a job portal admin. I am using spring + hibernate. I have created page for add job, it is working fine, but when i am using the same page for edit of jobs , it is giving me exception:

org.hibernate.LazyInitializationException: could not initialize proxy - no Session
    at org.hibernate.proxy.AbstractLazyInitializer.initialize(AbstractLazyInitializer.java:132)
    at org.hibernate.proxy.AbstractLazyInitializer.getImplementation(AbstractLazyInitializer.java:174)
    at org.hibernate.proxy.pojo.javassist.JavassistLazyInitializer.invoke(JavassistLazyInitializer.java:190)
    at com.jobs.admin.data.Company_$$_javassist_5.toString(Company_$$_javassist_5.java)
    at org.springframework.util.ObjectUtils.nullSafeToString(ObjectUtils.java:560)
    at org.springframework.util.ObjectUtils.getDisplayString(ObjectUtils.java:506)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.tags.form.SelectedValueComparator.exhaustiveCompare(SelectedValueComparator.java:178)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.tags.form.SelectedValueComparator.isSelected(SelectedValueComparator.java:103)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.tags.form.OptionTag.isSelected(OptionTag.java:243)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.tags.form.OptionTag.renderOption(OptionTag.java:211)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.tags.form.OptionTag.renderFromBodyContent(OptionTag.java:161)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.tags.form.AbstractHtmlElementBodyTag.doEndTag(AbstractHtmlElementBodyTag.java:66)
    at org.apache.jsp.WEB_002dINF.jsp.admin.addJob_jsp._jspService(addJob_jsp.java:735)
    at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
    at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:393)
    at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:320)
    at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:266)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:654)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.processRequest(ApplicationDispatcher.java:445)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:379)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:292)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceView.renderMergedOutputModel(InternalResourceView.java:238)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.view.AbstractView.render(AbstractView.java:250)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.render(DispatcherServlet.java:1060)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:798)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:716)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:647)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet(FrameworkServlet.java:552)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:690)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:230)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:175)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:128)
    at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:104)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
    at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:261)
    at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:844)
    at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:581)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:447)
    at java.lang.Thread.run

(Thread.java:619)

My controller class is having two method, one for adding job and one for edit that job. Why this is happening , please give some suggestions.

Answer 1

Why this is happening:

Looks like that in a JSP the toString method of Company is invoked. This triggers a (company) object to load (it is only layz loaded). Because you do not have a hibernate session in the JSP you get this error.

Give some suggestions:

• bad suggestion: do not use layzloading
• other bad suggestion: access the of that object, so that the loading is triggered within the transaction
• real suggestion: use a OpenSessionInViewFilter or OpenEntityManagerInViewFilter

Answer 2

Your entity (com.jobs.admin.data.Company) is lazily initialized. Meaning that some members were not really initialized, but Hibernate put a proxy instead and it is going to put the real values on demand.

After the entity is loaded from the database, you close the Session, so the members that were proxy-ed, were not initialized! And now you call com.jobs.admin.data.Company.toString() that uses members that were proxy-ed. So you get the exception.

Few suggestions:

1. Separate your logic into layers. Don't expose your entity objects directly to UI layer. Once you have a separate objects, you'll need to copy from entity to the UI object, you do it during the open session, thus you should never get this exception and everything becomes more clear.
2. Never use lazy loaded members in toString() methods. toString() may be called quite unpredictably, for example during logging and so on. You will hardly know if you have an open session during this time or not.