If your toString method ends up calling some of the entity state (likely), the
initialization won't be triggered since you will call your getters from inside
the instance. So it's a good general rule to mandate non final methods on
entities.
Emmanuel
On 8 juil. 2011, at 09:59, Robin Sander wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> excuse me if this list isn't indented for such a question, but I asked this
> question about a year ago in the forums
> without any answers and I think it should be easy to answer for any Hibernate
> core developer:
>
> According to Hibernate's (3.6.5) reference documentaion (Section 21.1.3,
> Single-ended association proxies),
> such a single-ended association proxy can't be constructed by Hibernate if it
> contains "any final methods".
>
> My question is, does this restriction apply to getters/setters of persistent
> fields only or really to any method in an entity class?
> As far as I can see Javassist is able to modify final methods as well and
> even if it were not, why should a method like
> public final String toString() {
> return "...";
> }
> prevent Hibernate from using a proxy?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Robin.
>
>
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