Given a classes Foo, Bar which have hibernate mappings to tables Foo, A, B and C
public class Foo {
Integer aid;
Integer bid;
Integer cid;
...;
}
public class Bar {
A a;
B b;
C c;
...;
}
I build a List fooList of an arbitrary size and I would like to use hibernate to fetch List where the resulting list will look something like this:
Bar[1] = [X1,Y2,ZA,...]
Bar[2] = [X1,Y2,ZB,...]
Bar[3] = [X1,Y2,ZC,...]
Bar[4] = [X1,Y3,ZD,...]
Bar[5] = [X2,Y4,ZE,...]
Bar[6] = [X2,Y4,ZF,...]
Bar[7] = [X2,Y5,ZG,...]
Bar[8] = ...
Where each Xi, Yi and Zi represents a unique object.
I know I can iterate fooList and fetch each List and call barList.addAll(...) to build the result list with something like this:
List<bar> barList.addAll(s.createQuery("from Bar bar where bar.aid = :aid and ... ")
.setEntity("aid", foo.getAid())
.setEntity("bid", foo.getBid())
.setEntity("cid", foo.getCid())
.list();
);
Is there any easier way, ideally one that makes better use of hibernate and make a minimal number of database calls?
Am I missing something? Is hibernate not the right tool for this?
