On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:25 PM, sgomez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi everyone. > > I'm trying to lazy load a collection mapped with the attribute proxy=true > but it doesn't seem to work. Maybe I haven't understood the concept of lazy > loading in this context, because I've read it waits until the getter method > is called to retrieve the collection, but I can't find any sense in that. > I'd quote where I read it from but I can't find it right now and I'm in a > bit of a hurry. I'll follow up with the quote when I find it if someone > finds it appropriate. > > The doubts that have rose since I tried using the lazy load are: What will > you get when calling ocm.getObject(path) on a path pointing to an object > with lazy loading collections? Will you get the object with it lists being > null? no, a proxy is created and assign to the list. If you debug, you see it.
>How do you test if the collections have been really lazy loaded if by > calling the getter you make the collections be fetched from the repository? > we are using cglib. So, it is not difficult to implement. When a method call is made on the collection attribute, the collection is retrieved. See the java classes in org.apache.jackrabbit.ocm.manager.objectconverter.impl Hope this help. Let me know if you need more info. Christophe
