Hibernate @OneToMany Relationship Causes Infinite Loop Or Empty Entries in JSON Result

Question

I have two entities, an entity \"movie\" and an entity \"Clip\" each clip belongs to one movie and a movie can have multiple clips.

My code looks like:

Answer 1

Instead of returning an Entity object, I suggest return a DTO object only with the data you need. You can get one directly from a Hibernate query/criteria results, using result transformers.