Spring + hibernate lazy fetching

Question

I have problem with org.hibernate.LazyInitializationException: failed to lazily initialize a collection of role.

How to implement lazy fetching with gwt + spring + hibernate?

Here's my appContext:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context" xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx" xsi:schemaLocation="   http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd   http://www.springframework.org/schema/context   http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd   http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx   http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd   http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop    http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd">
    <bean id="hibernateTemplate" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTemplate">
        <property name="sessionFactory">
            <ref local="sessionFactory"/>
        </property>
    </bean>
    <context:annotation-config/>
    <context:component-scan base-package="com.yeah.server.*"/>
    <aop:aspectj-autoproxy/>
    <!--Mysql database connection info-->
    <bean id="dataSource" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
        <property name="driverClassName" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"/>
        <property name="url" value="jdbc:mysql://192.168.1.4:3306/YeaH"/>
        <property name="username" value="root"/>
        <property name="password" value=""/>
    </bean>
    <!-- Hibernate -->
    <bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
        <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
        <property name="mappingResources">
            <list>
                <value>com/yeah/shared/model/User.hbm.xml</value>
                <value>com/yeah/shared/model/Comment.hbm.xml</value>
                <value>com/yeah/shared/model/Album.hbm.xml</value>
                <value>com/yeah/shared/model/Picture.hbm.xml</value>
            </list>
        </property>
        <property name="hibernateProperties">
            <props>
                <prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">update</prop>
            </props>
        </property>
    </bean>
    <!--HIbernate session management
 <bean name="openSessionInViewInterceptor"
     class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.support.OpenSessionInViewInterceptor">
 <property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory"/>
 <property name="singleSession" value="false"/>
 </bean>
 -->
    <!-- a PlatformTransactionManager is still required -->
    <bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DataSourceTransactionManager">
        <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
    </bean>
</beans>

Answer 1

The exception occurs because you're trying to access a lazy loaded property on a domain object after the hibernate session it was loaded in has been closed.

A common way of fixing this is to use the Spring OpenSessonInViewFilter. This essentially scopes your hibernate session to your HTTP request. Then any property access that occurs within that HTTP request/response cycle will be within the scope of that session.

You configure it in your web.xml as follows:

<filter>
    <filter-name>Spring OpenSessionInViewFilter</filter-name>
    <filter-class>
        org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.support.OpenSessionInViewFilter
    </filter-class>
</filter>

Hope this helps.