Spring Data JPA: Fetching data from entity just after save() method

Question

I'm using Spring Data JPA with Hibernate JPA provider in my project. Inside my service I have a method, which saves an entity in database and than using returned object I try to fetch more details about this entity. As a result, details are not fetched. In logs I see only insert statement, without select for details.

Here is my code:

Configuration:

@Configuration
@Profile("test")
@EnableJpaRepositories(basePackages = {"pl.lodz.uml.sonda.common.repositories"})
@EnableTransactionManagement
@PropertySource(value = "classpath:db.test.properties")
public class PersistenceConfigTest {
  @Autowired
  private Environment env;
  @Value("classpath:sql/test-initialization.sql")
  private Resource sqlInitializationScript;

  @Bean
  public DataSource dataSource() {
    BasicDataSource dataSource = new BasicDataSource();

    dataSource.setDriverClassName(env.getProperty("jdbc.driverClassName"));
    dataSource.setUrl(env.getProperty("jdbc.url"));
    dataSource.setUsername(env.getProperty("jdbc.username"));
    dataSource.setPassword(env.getProperty("jdbc.password"));

    return dataSource;
  }

  @Bean
  public LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean entityManagerFactory() {
    LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean entityManagerFactory = new LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean();
    HibernateJpaVendorAdapter adapter = new HibernateJpaVendorAdapter();

    adapter.setShowSql(env.getProperty("hibernate.showSQL", Boolean.class));
    adapter.setGenerateDdl(env.getProperty("hibernate.hbm2ddl", Boolean.class));

    entityManagerFactory.setDataSource(dataSource());
    entityManagerFactory.setPackagesToScan("pl.lodz.uml.sonda.common.domains");
    entityManagerFactory.setJpaVendorAdapter(adapter);

    Properties properties = new Properties();
    properties.put("hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto", env.getProperty("hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto"));

    entityManagerFactory.setJpaProperties(properties);

    return entityManagerFactory;
  }

  @Bean(name = "transactionManager")
  public PlatformTransactionManager platformTransactionManager() {
    EntityManagerFactory entityManagerFactory = entityManagerFactory().getObject();
    return new JpaTransactionManager(entityManagerFactory);
  }

  @Bean
  public DataSourceInitializer dataSourceInitializer() {
    ResourceDatabasePopulator populator = new ResourceDatabasePopulator();
    populator.addScript(sqlInitializationScript);

    DataSourceInitializer initializer = new DataSourceInitializer();
    initializer.setDataSource(dataSource());
    initializer.setDatabasePopulator(populator);
    initializer.setEnabled(env.getProperty("db.initialization", Boolean.class));

    return initializer;
  }

  @Bean
  public ProbeService probeService() {
    return new ProbeServiceImpl();
  }
}

Service:

@Service
@Transactional
public class ProbeServiceImpl implements ProbeService {
  @Autowired
  private ProbeRepository probeRepository;

  @Override
  public Probe saveProbe(Probe probe) {
    Probe saved = probeRepository.save(probe);
    saved.getGroup().getName();

    return saved;
  }
}

Simple test:

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@ActiveProfiles("test")
@ContextConfiguration(classes = {PersistenceConfigTest.class})
@Transactional
@TransactionConfiguration(defaultRollback = true)
@TestExecutionListeners({
  DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener.class,
  DirtiesContextTestExecutionListener.class,
  TransactionalTestExecutionListener.class
})
public class ProbeServiceImplTest {
  @Autowired
  private ProbeService probeService;

  @Test
  public void test() {
    Probe probe = ProbeFixtures.generateProbeSample("Test one");
    probe.setGroup(ProbeFixtures.generateProbeGroupSample(1));

    Probe saved = probeService.saveProbe(probe);
    System.out.println("Group name: " + saved.getGroup().getName());
  }
}

Entities:

@Entity
@Table(name = "probes")
public class Probe {
  @Id
  @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
  @Column(name = "probe_id")
  private long probeId;

  @Column(name = "probe_title", nullable = false)
  private String title;

  @Column(name = "probe_description", nullable = true)
  private String description;

  @ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.EAGER)
  @JoinColumn(name = "probe_group_id", nullable = true)
  private ProbeGroup group;

  @OneToOne(fetch = FetchType.EAGER)
  @JoinColumn(name = "probe_image_id", nullable = true)
  private ProbeFile image;

  @Column(name = "probe_published_date", nullable = false)
  private Date published;

  @Column(name = "probe_last_updated_date", nullable = false)
  private Date updated;

  @Column(name = "probe_expire_date", nullable = false)
  private Date expires;

  @Column(name = "probe_is_active", nullable = false)
  private boolean isActive;

  @OneToMany(mappedBy = "probe", fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
  private List<Question> questions;

  @OneToMany(mappedBy = "probe", fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
  private List<Vote> votes;

  public Probe() {
    questions = new LinkedList<>();
    votes = new LinkedList<>();
  }
  // getters & setters ...


@Entity
@Table(name = "probe_groups")
public class ProbeGroup {
  @Id
  @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
  @Column(name = "probe_group_id")
  private long probeGroupId;

  @Column(name = "probe_group_name", nullable = false, unique = true)
  private String name;

  @Column(name = "probe_group_description", nullable = true)
  private String description;

  @OneToMany(mappedBy = "group", fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
  private List<Probe> probes;

  public ProbeGroup() {
    probes = new LinkedList<>();
  }
  // getters & setters ...

And few last logs lines:

Hibernate: insert into probes (probe_description, probe_expire_date, probe_group_id, probe_image_id, probe_is_active, probe_published_date, probe_title, probe_last_updated_date) values (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
Group name: null

I also tried to run spring data jpa method - getOne(id) after save(), but also it does not work (insert statement invoked, select not);

UPDATE: I removed @Transactional annotaion from my service and from test. Now when I'm saving an entity and then fetching the same entity, I have two sql statements in logs: insert and then select. Maybe my problem is because of wrong persistence/transaction configuration. What You think?

Answer 1

This might be a bit outdated, but I ran into the same issue and found that hibernate 2nd level cache was the issue.

Answer 2

The save() method may or may not write your changes to database immediately. If you want to commit the changes immediately, you will need to use T saveAndFlush(T entity) method.