(Lazy) LEFT OUTER JOIN using the Hibernate Criteria API

Question

I want to perform a LEFT OUTER JOIN between two tables using the Criteria API. All I could find in the Hibernate documentation is this method:

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Answer 1

A join is in the SQL request. It can't be lazy.

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With Hibernate, to retrieve lazily this data, just exclude it from the HQL request. Then, when you access the getters on your entity (if your Session is still open), it will be loaded automatically (you don't have to write that part of the request).