Hibernate HQL join fetch not recursively fetching

Question

I have the following query and method

private static final String FIND = \"SELECT DISTINCT domain FROM Domain domain LEFT OUTER JOIN FETCH domain.operators L         


        

Answer 1

It's not documented that good, but did you try setting the FetchMode? You can do so by either using the Criteria API: domainCriteria.setFetchMode("operators", JOIN) or use @Fetch(JOIN) at the relation definition.

The annotation (and only the annotation as it seems) also allows to set a fetch mode SUBSELECT, which should at least restrain Hibernate to execute 3 queries max. Not knowing your dataset, I assume this should be the way to go for you, as a big fat join over those tables does not seem too healthy. Best to figure it out for yourself, I guess...