Associations and joins in Hibernate: For the use of Join wee can assign associated entities or elements of a collection of values.
For example: from Student as student inner join student.mate as mate left outer join student.kittens as kitten
from Student as student left join cat.mate.kittens as kittens
from Formula form full join form.parameter param
Which type support to the
join types are
borrowed from
ANSI SQL:
1. inner join
2. left outer join
3. right outer join
4. full join (not usually useful)
Inner join, left
outer join and right outer join
constructs may be
abbreviated.
from Student as student join student.mate as mate left join student.kittens as kitten
We can supply extra join
conditions using the
HQL with keyword.
from Student as student left join student.kittens as kitten with kitten.bodyWeight > 10.0
A "
fetch"
join allows
associations or collections of values to be initialized along with their parent objects using a single select. This is particularly useful in the case of a collection. It effectively overrides the outer join and lazy declarations of the mapping file for associations and collections.
from Student as student inner join fetch student.mate left join fetch student.kittens
A
fetch join does not usually need to assign an alias, because the associated objects should not be used in the where clause (or any other clause). The associated objects are also not returned directly in the query results. Instead, they may be
accessed via the parent object.
For the only reason you might need an alias is if you are recursively join fetching a further collection:
from Student as student inner join fetch student.mate left join fetch student.kittens child left join fetch child.kittens
The fetch construct cannot be used in queries called using iterate() (though scroll() can be used). Fetch should be used together with setMaxResults() or setFirstResult(), as these operations are based on the result rows which usually contain duplicates for eager collection fetching, hence, the number of rows is not what you would expect.
Fetch should also not be used together with impromptu with condition. It is possible to create a cartesian product by join fetching more than one collection in a query, so take care in this case. Join fetching multiple collection roles can produce unexpected results for bag mappings, so user discretion is advised when formulating queries in this case. Finally, note that full join fetch and right join fetch are not meaningful.
If you are using property-level lazy fetching (with bytecode instrumentation), it is possible to force Hibernate to fetch the lazy properties in the first query immediately using fetch all properties.
from Document fetch all properties order by name
from Document doc fetch all properties where lower(doc.name) like '%student%'