[jira] Created: (OPENJPA-281) EAGER not the default fetch type without the @Basic annotation

[Kevin Sutter (JIRA)]

EAGER not the default fetch type without the @Basic annotation
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                 Key: OPENJPA-281
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENJPA-281
             Project: OpenJPA
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: jpa
    Affects Versions: 0.9.7
            Reporter: Kevin Sutter
            Assignee: Kevin Sutter
             Fix For: 1.0.0


There's an on-going discussion on the dev mailing list concerning this problem 
(http://www.nabble.com/Eager-fetching-not-working-with-enums-and-lobs-tf4037105.html).
  Since I've gotten agreement on at least one aspect of the problem, I decided 
to open this JIRA Issue to document the problem.

Here's a summary of the problem:

I am finding that the supposed default action of Eager fetching is not 
happening with @Enumerated and @Lob fields.  If I explicitly specify the @Basic 
annotation, then the fields are eagerly fetched.  But, without this extraneous 
@Basic, these fields are lazily loaded.  This action does not seem to be 
consistent with the spec.  Nor, can I find any mention of this alternate 
behavior in our OpenJPA manual.  Sounds like a bug to me.  Any other insights?

This works (eager loading kicks in):

    @Basic @Enumerated(EnumType.STRING)
    private Gender gender;

This does not work (lazy loading kicks in):

    @Enumerated(EnumType.STRING)
    private Gender gender;

I have also tried to use defaults (without any annotations), and lazy loading 
still kicks in:

    private Gender gender;

The JPA spec attempts to address this situation in section 9.1.18...  Section 
9.1.8 of the JPA spec indicates that @Basic is optional and applies to the 
following types: 

"..Java primitive types, wrappers of the primitive types, java.lang.String, 
java.math.BigInteger,
java.math.BigDecimal, java.util.Date, java.util.Calendar, java.sql.Date,
java.sql.Time, java.sql.Timestamp, byte[], Byte[], char[], Character[],
enums, and any other type that implements Serializable."

And, since the default fetch type for @Basic is EAGER, it looks like we need to 
do eager fetching for both @Enumerated and @Lob fields unless otherwise 
overridden by a LAZY fetch type (ie. @Basic(fetch=LAZY)).  Agree?

We're still working on the agreement...  :-)

Thanks,
Kevin

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