Lazy load FK references

[jdavo]

It would be nice if we were able have FK references lazy loaded (ie not loaded from the DB) until they are referenced, and achieve this via support in the ORM library

[bytor99999]

Do you mean associations? Like I have an Order that has a
List and the list of OrderDetails is lazy loaded? If you mean
that, that is a slippery slope. Having build an ORM product years and years
ago, those types of features are the ones that you have to keep adding to
and keep maintaining and it becomes a pain.

That is especially the parts of an ORM that I wanted to avoid. It really is
a library for JdbcTemplate of Spring's JdbcTemplate, with very very little
straight mapping one to one to objects and tables and that was it.

If you want that, you can always add it, but I wouldn't have time to
maintain that part of the code. But you can always do that if you want.

Mark

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 7:07 PM, David O'Meara <
[email protected]

wrote:

It would be nice if we were able have FK references lazy loaded (ie not
loaded from the DB) until they are referenced, and achieve this via support
in the ORM library

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[jdavo]

I'll yield to your experience if you suggest this is a slippery slope. In my mind it is more of a 'desirable' than a necessity for an ORM layer.