FetchType.LAZY not working for @ManyToOne mapping in hibernate

Question

Simply put I have a many to one relation on the Child class with the Parent class. I want to load all the children without having to load their parent details. My child class is

@Entity

public class Child implements Serializable {
@Id
@GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
private Long id;

private String name;

@ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
@JoinColumn(name = "parentId", referencedColumnName = "id")
private Parent parent;

public Child() {
}
// Getters and setters here
}

My parent class is

@Entity
public class Parent implements Serializable {
@Id
@GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
private Long id;

private String name;

public Parent() {
}
}

I have a rest controller with which I want to fetch all the children without their parents

@GetMapping
public List<Child> getChildren() {
    return childRepository.findAll();
}

When i run this it throws

 {
  "timestamp": "2019-02-22T13:45:31.219+0000",
  "status": 500,
  "error": "Internal Server Error",
  "message": "Type definition error: [simple type, class org.hibernate.proxy.pojo.bytebuddy.ByteBuddyInterceptor]; nested exception is com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.exc.InvalidDefinitionException: No serializer found for class org.hibernate.proxy.pojo.bytebuddy.ByteBuddyInterceptor and no properties discovered to create BeanSerializer (to avoid exception, disable SerializationFeature.FAIL_ON_EMPTY_BEANS) (through reference chain: java.util.ArrayList[0]->com.example.attendance.models.Child[\"parent\"]->com.example.attendance.models.Parent$HibernateProxy$1QzJfFPz[\"hibernateLazyInitializer\"])",
  "trace": "org.springframework.http.converter.HttpMessageConversionException: Type definition error: [simple type, class org.hibernate.proxy.pojo.bytebuddy.ByteBuddyInterceptor]; nested exception is com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.exc.InvalidDefinitionException: No serializer found for class org.hibernate.proxy.pojo.bytebuddy.ByteBuddyInterceptor and no properties discovered to create BeanSerializer (to avoid exception, disable SerializationFeature.FAIL_ON_EMPTY_BEANS) (through reference chain: java.util.ArrayList[0]->com.example.attendance.models.Child[\"parent\"]->com.example.attendance.models.Parent$HibernateProxy$1QzJfFPz[\"hibernateLazyInitializer\"])\n\tat org.springframework.http.converter.json.AbstractJackson2HttpMessageConverter.writeInternal(AbstractJackson2HttpMessageConverter.java:293)\n\tat org.springframework.http.converter.AbstractGenericHttpMessageConverter.write(AbstractGenericHttpMessageConverter.java:103)\n\tat org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.AbstractMessageConverterMethodProcessor.writeWithMessageConverters(AbstractMessageConverterMethodProcessor.java:290)\n\tat org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestResponseBodyMethodProcessor.handleReturnValue(RequestResponseBodyMethodProcessor.java:180)

What do I change so that I can lazy load the parent class?

Thanks in advance.

chrysaet0s · Accepted Answer · 2019-02-22 14:01:27Z

9

You already lazy load the parent class. Exception happens because you serialize Child objects before parents are loaded. To disable it you can annotate your Child class with that: @JsonIgnoreProperties({"hibernateLazyInitializer", "handler"})

After that Parent will be ignored in serialization.

answered Feb 22, 2019 at 14:01

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kushal Baldev Over a year ago

Still it will fetch the parent entity records.

kushal Baldev Over a year ago

You need to do some configuration for that..!!

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