Thursday, 3 July 2014

Hibernate session.get() and session.load()

Actually, both functions are use to retrieve an object with different mechanism, of course.

1. session.load()
It will always return a “proxy” (Hibernate term) without hitting the database. In Hibernate, proxy is an object with the given identifier value, its properties are not initialized yet, it just look like a temporary fake object.
If no row found , it will throws an ObjectNotFoundException.


2. session.get()
It always hit the database and return the real object, an object that represent the database row, not proxy.
If no row found , it return null.
It’s about performance

Hibernate create anything for some reasons, when you do the association, it’s normal to obtain retrieve an object (persistent instance) from database and assign it as a reference to another object, just to maintain the relationship.

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