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Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:45:24 -0700
From: "Dinkar Rao" <dinkar.d91411118@gmail.com>
To: users@openjpa.apache.org
Subject: Re: Partial populate of POJO
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Perhaps the per-field fetch configuration of dynamic fetch groups is
what you are looking for. Please see Section 7, Fetch Groups, of
Chapter 5 in the latest OpenJPA manual here:

http://openjpa.apache.org/builds/latest/docs/manual/ref_guide_fetch.html

hth,
Dinkar

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:58 AM, baileyby <byron.bailey@nashfinch.com> wrote:
>
> Is there a way to partially populate a POJO in dynamic fashion (i.e. without
> using transient modifiers or annotations)?  For example, I may want to
> populate my POJO's name and id in one situation, and yet populate name, id,
> and createDate in another.  Such as, entityManager.createQuery("SELECT
> MO.id, MO.name FROM MyObject MO")  Surely, a purist would say that I should
> always have a fully populated bean to ensure data integrity, but it's simply
> not reasonable for me to read in all of the possible columns in all
> situations (see next paragraph).  I've experimented and read through JSR220
> spec, and didn't see anything like this.  Is it possible?
>
> I have a table with about 500 columns, of which I am reading hundreds of
> rows very frequently.  So, I can't reasonably fetch all 500 columns all of
> the time without sacrificing performance.  In actuality, I only ever need
> about 20 columns, but which columns I need will change dynamically to suit
> different needs.
>
> Any ideas/suggestions are appreciated!
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