Spring Boot JPA Lazy Fetch is not working

Question

I have following two domain objects Suggestion and UserProfile

They are mapped with each other in one to many relationship. When I fetch all suggestions using Spring Data JPA, I get corresponding user object with each suggestion objects. This result is observed even when I have set fetch as FetchType.Lazy. Following is my code:

Suggestion.java

@Entity
@Table(name="suggestion")
@JsonIgnoreProperties({"suggestionLikes"})
public class Suggestion {

public Suggestion() {
    // TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
}

@Id
@GeneratedValue(strategy=GenerationType.IDENTITY)
@Column(name="suggestion_id")
private Integer suggestionId;

@Column(name="description")
private String description;

@ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
@JoinColumn(name="suggestion_by")
private UserProfile user;

//getters and setters
}

UserProfile.java

@Entity
@Table(name = "user_master")
@JsonIgnoreProperties({"suggestions", "suggestionLikes"})
public class UserProfile implements Serializable {

/**
 * 
 */
private static final long serialVersionUID = 7400472171878370L;


public UserProfile() {

}


@Id
@NotNull
@Column(name = "username", length = 55)
private String userName;

@NotNull
@Column(name = "password")
private String password;

@OneToMany(mappedBy = "user", fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
private Set<Suggestion> suggestions;

//getters and setters
}

Following is the service which fetches the records:

@Override
@Transactional(propagation = Propagation.SUPPORTS, readOnly = true)
public List<Suggestion> getAllSuggestion() {
    return suggestionRespository.findAll();;
}

SuggestionRepository:

@Repository
public interface SuggestionRespository extends JpaRepository<Suggestion, 
Integer> {

    public List<Suggestion> findAll();
}

Following is the Application class:

@EnableTransactionManagement
@SpringBootApplication
public class AngularSpringbootApplication {

public static void main(String[] args) {
    SpringApplication.run(AngularSpringbootApplication.class, args);
}
}

application.properties:

spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/plan_trip
spring.datasource.username=root
spring.datasource.password=root

spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.dialect = 
org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5InnoDBDialect
spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto = update
spring.jackson.serialization.fail-on-empty-beans=false

Response received when getAllSuggestions() is executed:

[
{
    "suggestionId": 2,
    "description": "Germanyi!",
    "createdBy": "vinit2",
    "createdDate": "2018-06-19T10:38:32.000+0000",
    "modifiedBy": "vinit2",
    "modifiedDate": "2018-06-19T10:38:32.000+0000",
    "user": {
        "userName": "vinit2",
        "password": 
"$2a$10$.hP0sQWpl6qqDKiNTkiu0OciQeHRFnkEbEWcDvnv1HY4QCi2tKo.2",
        "firstName": "Vinit2",
        "lastName": "Divekar2",
        "emailAddress": "[email protected]",
        "createdBy": null,
        "modifedBy": null,
        "createdDate": "2018-06-04",
        "modifiedDate": "2018-06-04",
        "isActive": "1",
        "handler": {},
        "hibernateLazyInitializer": {}
    }
},
{
    "suggestionId": 1,
    "description": "Vasai!",
    "createdBy": "vinit1",
    "createdDate": "2018-06-19T10:37:38.000+0000",
    "modifiedBy": "vinit1",
    "modifiedDate": "2018-06-19T10:37:38.000+0000",
    "user": {
        "userName": "vinit1",
        "password": "$2a$10$D0RMSTWu03Jw7wC1/zqFxOOjb0Do24o/4mq2PhDhRUyBrs8bdGvUG",
        "firstName": "Vinit1",
        "lastName": "Divekar1",
        "emailAddress": "[email protected]",
        "createdBy": null,
        "modifedBy": null,
        "createdDate": "2018-06-04",
        "modifiedDate": "2018-06-04",
        "isActive": "1",
        "handler": {},
        "hibernateLazyInitializer": {}
    }
}

]

Expected response:

[{
    "suggestionId": 2,
    "description": "Germanyi!",
    "createdBy": "vinit2",
    "createdDate": "2018-06-19T10:38:32.000+0000",
    "modifiedBy": "vinit2",
    "modifiedDate": "2018-06-19T10:38:32.000+0000"
},
{
    "suggestionId": 1,
    "description": "Vasai!",
    "createdBy": "vinit1",
    "createdDate": "2018-06-19T10:37:38.000+0000",
    "modifiedBy": "vinit1",
    "modifiedDate": "2018-06-19T10:37:38.000+0000"
}
]

When I have declared FetchType as Lazy, I should not get User objects (in JSON) when I execute findAll()on Suggestion entity.

What am I missing here?

Answer 1

You can use @JsonManagedReference & @JsonBackReference to prevent proxy call by jakson. Following code may help you.

@JsonBackReference
@OneToMany(mappedBy = "user", fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
private Set<Suggestion> suggestions;

@JsonManagedReference
@ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
@JoinColumn(name = "suggestion_by")
private UserProfile user;

Add the following dependency, change version according to your hibernate

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype</groupId>
    <artifactId>jackson-datatype-hibernate5</artifactId>
</dependency>

and finally add a new config

@Configuration
public class JacksonConfig {

@Bean
public Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilderCustomizer addCustomBigDecimalDeserialization() {
    return new Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilderCustomizer() {
        @Override
        public void customize(Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder jacksonObjectMapperBuilder) {
            jacksonObjectMapperBuilder.featuresToDisable(DeserializationFeature.FAIL_ON_UNKNOWN_PROPERTIES);
            jacksonObjectMapperBuilder.modules(new Hibernate5Module());
        }

    };
 }
}