How to force eager loading with CrudRepository in spring-data?

Question

I have an entity containing a List that is thus lazy loaded by default:

interface MyEntityRepository extends CrudRepository

        

Answer 1

You can force eager fetch writing custom HQL query with left join fetch, eg:

interface MyEntityRepository extends CrudRepository {
    @Query("select e from MyEntity e left join fetch e.bar b where e.id = ?1")
    MyEntity findOne(long id)
}