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Hibernate uses a fetching strategy to retrieve associated objects if the application needs to navigate the association. Fetch strategies can be declared in the O/R mapping metadata, or over-ridden by a particular HQL or Criteria
query.
Hibernate3 definiert die folgenden Abrufstrategien:
Join fetching: Hibernate retrieves the associated instance or collection in the same SELECT
, using an OUTER JOIN
.
Select fetching: a second SELECT
is used to retrieve the associated entity or collection. Unless you explicitly disable lazy fetching by specifying lazy="false"
, this second select will only be executed when you access the association.
Subselect fetching: a second SELECT
is used to retrieve the associated collections for all entities retrieved in a previous query or fetch. Unless you explicitly disable lazy fetching by specifying lazy="false"
, this second select will only be executed when you access the association.
Batch fetching: an optimization strategy for select fetching. Hibernate retrieves a batch of entity instances or collections in a single SELECT
by specifying a list of primary or foreign keys.
Hibernate unterscheidet außerdem zwischen:
Immediate fetching: an association, collection or attribute is fetched immediately when the owner is loaded.
Lazy collection fetching: a collection is fetched when the application invokes an operation upon that collection. This is the default for collections.
"Extra-lazy" collection fetching: individual elements of the collection are accessed from the database as needed. Hibernate tries not to fetch the whole collection into memory unless absolutely needed. It is suitable for large collections.
Proxy fetching: a single-valued association is fetched when a method other than the identifier getter is invoked upon the associated object.
"No-proxy" fetching: a single-valued association is fetched when the instance variable is accessed. Compared to proxy fetching, this approach is less lazy; the association is fetched even when only the identifier is accessed. It is also more transparent, since no proxy is visible to the application. This approach requires buildtime bytecode instrumentation and is rarely necessary.
Lazy attribute fetching: an attribute or single valued association is fetched when the instance variable is accessed. This approach requires buildtime bytecode instrumentation and is rarely necessary.
We have two orthogonal notions here: when is the association fetched and how is it fetched. It is important that you do not confuse them. We use fetch
to tune performance. We can use lazy
to define a contract for what data is always available in any detached instance of a particular class.
By default, Hibernate3 uses lazy select fetching for collections and lazy proxy fetching for single-valued associations. These defaults make sense for most associations in the majority of applications.
If you set hibernate.default_batch_fetch_size
, Hibernate will use the batch fetch optimization for lazy fetching. This optimization can also be enabled at a more granular level.
Please be aware that access to a lazy association outside of the context of an open Hibernate session will result in an exception. For example:
s = sessions.openSession();
Transaction tx = s.beginTransaction();
User u = (User) s.createQuery("from User u where u.name=:userName")
.setString("userName", userName).uniqueResult();
Map permissions = u.getPermissions();
tx.commit();
s.close();
Integer accessLevel = (Integer) permissions.get("accounts"); // Error!
Since the permissions collection was not initialized when the Session
was closed, the collection will not be able to load its state. Hibernate does not support lazy initialization for detached objects. This can be fixed by moving the code that reads from the collection to just before the transaction is committed.
Alternatively, you can use a non-lazy collection or association, by specifying lazy="false"
for the association mapping. However, it is intended that lazy initialization be used for almost all collections and associations. If you define too many non-lazy associations in your object model, Hibernate will fetch the entire database into memory in every transaction.
On the other hand, you can use join fetching, which is non-lazy by nature, instead of select fetching in a particular transaction. We will now explain how to customize the fetching strategy. In Hibernate3, the mechanisms for choosing a fetch strategy are identical for single-valued associations and collections.
Der Auswahlabruf - "Select Fetching" (Standard) ist extrem anfällig für N+1 Auswahlprobleme, weswegen sich die Aktivierung von "Join-Fetching" im Mapping-Dokument empfiehlt:
<set name="permissions"
fetch="join">
<key column="userId"/>
<one-to-many class="Permission"/>
</set
<many-to-one name="mother" class="Cat" fetch="join"/>
Die im Mapping-Dokument definierte fetch
-Strategie hat Auswirkungen auf:
Abruf mittels get()
oder load()
einem impliziten Abruf, der beim Navigieren der Assoziation erfolgt
Criteria
-Anfragen
HQL-Anfragen, wenn subselect
-Abruf verwendet wird
Irrespective of the fetching strategy you use, the defined non-lazy graph is guaranteed to be loaded into memory. This might, however, result in several immediate selects being used to execute a particular HQL query.
Usually, the mapping document is not used to customize fetching. Instead, we keep the default behavior, and override it for a particular transaction, using left join fetch
in HQL. This tells Hibernate to fetch the association eagerly in the first select, using an outer join. In the Criteria
query API, you would use setFetchMode(FetchMode.JOIN)
.
If you want to change the fetching strategy used by get()
or load()
, you can use a Criteria
query. For example:
User user = (User) session.createCriteria(User.class)
.setFetchMode("permissions", FetchMode.JOIN)
.add( Restrictions.idEq(userId) )
.uniqueResult();
This is Hibernate's equivalent of what some ORM solutions call a "fetch plan".
A completely different approach to problems with N+1 selects is to use the second-level cache.
Lazy fetching for collections is implemented using Hibernate's own implementation of persistent collections. However, a different mechanism is needed for lazy behavior in single-ended associations. The target entity of the association must be proxied. Hibernate implements lazy initializing proxies for persistent objects using runtime bytecode enhancement which is accessed via the CGLIB library.
At startup, Hibernate3 generates proxies by default for all persistent classes and uses them to enable lazy fetching of many-to-one
and one-to-one
associations.
The mapping file may declare an interface to use as the proxy interface for that class, with the proxy
attribute. By default, Hibernate uses a subclass of the class. The proxied class must implement a default constructor with at least package visibility. This constructor is recommended for all persistent classes.
There are potential problems to note when extending this approach to polymorphic classes.For example:
<class name="Cat" proxy="Cat">
......
<subclass name="DomesticCat">
.....
</subclass>
</class>
Zunächst einmal werden Instanzen von Cat
hinsichtlich ihres Datentyps niemals in DomesticCat
konvertierbar sein, selbst wenn die zu Grunde liegende Instanz eine Instanz von DomesticCat
ist:
Cat cat = (Cat) session.load(Cat.class, id); // instantiate a proxy (does not hit the db)
if ( cat.isDomesticCat() ) { // hit the db to initialize the proxy
DomesticCat dc = (DomesticCat) cat; // Error!
....
}
Secondly, it is possible to break proxy ==
:
Cat cat = (Cat) session.load(Cat.class, id); // instantiate a Cat proxy
DomesticCat dc =
(DomesticCat) session.load(DomesticCat.class, id); // acquire new DomesticCat proxy!
System.out.println(cat==dc); // false
Allerdings ist die Situation nicht so schlimm wie sie aussieht. Obwohl wir jetzt zwei Verweise auf verschiedene Proxy-Objekte besitzen, so bleibt die zu Grunde liegende Instanz nach wie vor dasselbe Objekt:
cat.setWeight(11.0); // hit the db to initialize the proxy
System.out.println( dc.getWeight() ); // 11.0
Third, you cannot use a CGLIB proxy for a final
class or a class with any final
methods.
Finally, if your persistent object acquires any resources upon instantiation (e.g. in initializers or default constructor), then those resources will also be acquired by the proxy. The proxy class is an actual subclass of the persistent class.
These problems are all due to fundamental limitations in Java's single inheritance model. To avoid these problems your persistent classes must each implement an interface that declares its business methods. You should specify these interfaces in the mapping file where CatImpl
implements the interface Cat
and DomesticCatImpl
implements the interface DomesticCat
. For example:
<class name="CatImpl" proxy="Cat">
......
<subclass name="DomesticCatImpl" proxy="DomesticCat">
.....
</subclass>
</class>
Then proxies for instances of Cat
and DomesticCat
can be returned by load()
or iterate()
.
Cat cat = (Cat) session.load(CatImpl.class, catid);
Iterator iter = session.createQuery("from CatImpl as cat where cat.name='fritz'").iterate();
Cat fritz = (Cat) iter.next();
list()
does not usually return proxies.
Beziehungen werden ebenfalls "lazy" initialisiert. Das bedeutet, dass Sie sämtliche Properties als Typ Cat
, nicht CatImpl
deklarieren müssen.
Certain operations do not require proxy initialization:
equals()
: if the persistent class does not override equals()
hashCode()
: if the persistent class does not override hashCode()
Die "Getter"-Methode des Bezeichners
Hibernate erkennt persistente Klassen, die equals()
oder hashCode()
außer Kraft setzen.
By choosing lazy="no-proxy"
instead of the default lazy="proxy"
, you can avoid problems associated with typecasting. However, buildtime bytecode instrumentation is required, and all operations will result in immediate proxy initialization.
A LazyInitializationException
will be thrown by Hibernate if an uninitialized collection or proxy is accessed outside of the scope of the Session
, i.e., when the entity owning the collection or having the reference to the proxy is in the detached state.
Sometimes a proxy or collection needs to be initialized before closing the Session
. You can force initialization by calling cat.getSex()
or cat.getKittens().size()
, for example. However, this can be confusing to readers of the code and it is not convenient for generic code.
The static methods Hibernate.initialize()
and Hibernate.isInitialized()
, provide the application with a convenient way of working with lazily initialized collections or proxies. Hibernate.initialize(cat)
will force the initialization of a proxy, cat
, as long as its Session
is still open. Hibernate.initialize( cat.getKittens() )
has a similar effect for the collection of kittens.
Another option is to keep the Session
open until all required collections and proxies have been loaded. In some application architectures, particularly where the code that accesses data using Hibernate, and the code that uses it are in different application layers or different physical processes, it can be a problem to ensure that the Session
is open when a collection is initialized. There are two basic ways to deal with this issue:
In a web-based application, a servlet filter can be used to close the Session
only at the end of a user request, once the rendering of the view is complete (the Open Session in View pattern). Of course, this places heavy demands on the correctness of the exception handling of your application infrastructure. It is vitally important that the Session
is closed and the transaction ended before returning to the user, even when an exception occurs during rendering of the view. See the Hibernate Wiki for examples of this "Open Session in View" pattern.
In an application with a separate business tier, the business logic must "prepare" all collections that the web tier needs before returning. This means that the business tier should load all the data and return all the data already initialized to the presentation/web tier that is required for a particular use case. Usually, the application calls Hibernate.initialize()
for each collection that will be needed in the web tier (this call must occur before the session is closed) or retrieves the collection eagerly using a Hibernate query with a FETCH
clause or a FetchMode.JOIN
in Criteria
. This is usually easier if you adopt the Command pattern instead of a Session Facade.
You can also attach a previously loaded object to a new Session
with merge()
or lock()
before accessing uninitialized collections or other proxies. Hibernate does not, and certainly should not, do this automatically since it would introduce impromptu transaction semantics.
Sometimes you do not want to initialize a large collection, but still need some information about it, like its size, for example, or a subset of the data.
Sie können einen Collection-Filter verwenden, um die Größe der Collection zu ermitteln ohne diese zu initialisieren:
( (Integer) s.createFilter( collection, "select count(*)" ).list().get(0) ).intValue()
Die createFilter()
-Methode wird außerdem benutzt, um effizient Untersätze einer Collection abzurufen, ohne die gesamte Collection zu initialisieren:
s.createFilter( lazyCollection, "").setFirstResult(0).setMaxResults(10).list();
Using batch fetching, Hibernate can load several uninitialized proxies if one proxy is accessed. Batch fetching is an optimization of the lazy select fetching strategy. There are two ways you can configure batch fetching: on the class level and the collection level.
Batch fetching for classes/entities is easier to understand. Consider the following example: at runtime you have 25 Cat
instances loaded in a Session
, and each Cat
has a reference to its owner
, a Person
. The Person
class is mapped with a proxy, lazy="true"
. If you now iterate through all cats and call getOwner()
on each, Hibernate will, by default, execute 25 SELECT
statements to retrieve the proxied owners. You can tune this behavior by specifying a batch-size
in the mapping of Person
:
<class name="Person" batch-size="10">...</class>
Hibernate will now execute only three queries: the pattern is 10, 10, 5.
You can also enable batch fetching of collections. For example, if each Person
has a lazy collection of Cat
s, and 10 persons are currently loaded in the Session
, iterating through all persons will generate 10 SELECT
s, one for every call to getCats()
. If you enable batch fetching for the cats
collection in the mapping of Person
, Hibernate can pre-fetch collections:
<class name="Person">
<set name="cats" batch-size="3">
...
</set>
</class>
With a batch-size
of 3, Hibernate will load 3, 3, 3, 1 collections in four SELECT
s. Again, the value of the attribute depends on the expected number of uninitialized collections in a particular Session
.
Batch fetching of collections is particularly useful if you have a nested tree of items, i.e. the typical bill-of-materials pattern. However, a nested set or a materialized path might be a better option for read-mostly trees.
If one lazy collection or single-valued proxy has to be fetched, Hibernate will load all of them, re-running the original query in a subselect. This works in the same way as batch-fetching but without the piecemeal loading.
Another way to affect the fetching strategy for loading associated objects is through something called a fetch profile, which is a named configuration associated with the org.hibernate.SessionFactory
but enabled, by name, on the org.hibernate.Session
. Once enabled on a org.hibernate.Session
, the fetch profile will be in affect for that org.hibernate.Session
until it is explicitly disabled.
So what does that mean? Well lets explain that by way of an example which show the different available approaches to configure a fetch profile:
Beispiel 21.1. Specifying a fetch profile using @FetchProfile
@Entity
@FetchProfile(name = "customer-with-orders", fetchOverrides = {
@FetchProfile.FetchOverride(entity = Customer.class, association = "orders", mode = FetchMode.JOIN)
})
public class Customer {
@Id
@GeneratedValue
private long id;
private String name;
private long customerNumber;
@OneToMany
private Set<Order> orders;
// standard getter/setter
...
}
Beispiel 21.2. Specifying a fetch profile using <fetch-profile>
outside <class>
node
<hibernate-mapping>
<class name="Customer">
...
<set name="orders" inverse="true">
<key column="cust_id"/>
<one-to-many class="Order"/>
</set>
</class>
<class name="Order">
...
</class>
<fetch-profile name="customer-with-orders">
<fetch entity="Customer" association="orders" style="join"/>
</fetch-profile>
</hibernate-mapping>
Beispiel 21.3. Specifying a fetch profile using <fetch-profile>
inside <class>
node
<hibernate-mapping>
<class name="Customer">
...
<set name="orders" inverse="true">
<key column="cust_id"/>
<one-to-many class="Order"/>
</set>
<fetch-profile name="customer-with-orders">
<fetch association="orders" style="join"/>
</fetch-profile>
</class>
<class name="Order">
...
</class>
</hibernate-mapping>
Now normally when you get a reference to a particular customer, that customer's set of orders will be lazy meaning we will not yet have loaded those orders from the database. Normally this is a good thing. Now lets say that you have a certain use case where it is more efficient to load the customer and their orders together. One way certainly is to use "dynamic fetching" strategies via an HQL or criteria queries. But another option is to use a fetch profile to achieve that. The following code will load both the customer andtheir orders:
Beispiel 21.4. Activating a fetch profile for a given Session
Session session = ...;
session.enableFetchProfile( "customer-with-orders" ); // name matches from mapping
Customer customer = (Customer) session.get( Customer.class, customerId );
@FetchProfile
definitions are global and it does not matter on which class you place them. You can place the @FetchProfile
annotation either onto a class or package (package-info.java). In order to define multiple fetch profiles for the same class or package @FetchProfiles
can be used.
Currently only join style fetch profiles are supported, but they plan is to support additional styles. See HHH-3414 for details.
Hibernate3 supports the lazy fetching of individual properties. This optimization technique is also known as fetch groups. Please note that this is mostly a marketing feature; optimizing row reads is much more important than optimization of column reads. However, only loading some properties of a class could be useful in extreme cases. For example, when legacy tables have hundreds of columns and the data model cannot be improved.
Um das "lazy" Laden von Properties zu aktivieren, setzen Sie das lazy
-Attribut auf Ihr bestimmtes Property-Mapping:
<class name="Document">
<id name="id">
<generator class="native"/>
</id>
<property name="name" not-null="true" length="50"/>
<property name="summary" not-null="true" length="200" lazy="true"/>
<property name="text" not-null="true" length="2000" lazy="true"/>
</class>
Lazy property loading requires buildtime bytecode instrumentation. If your persistent classes are not enhanced, Hibernate will ignore lazy property settings and return to immediate fetching.
Für die Bytecode-Instrumentierung verwenden Sie folgende Ant-Funktion:
<target name="instrument" depends="compile">
<taskdef name="instrument" classname="org.hibernate.tool.instrument.InstrumentTask">
<classpath path="${jar.path}"/>
<classpath path="${classes.dir}"/>
<classpath refid="lib.class.path"/>
</taskdef>
<instrument verbose="true">
<fileset dir="${testclasses.dir}/org/hibernate/auction/model">
<include name="*.class"/>
</fileset>
</instrument>
</target>
A different way of avoiding unnecessary column reads, at least for read-only transactions, is to use the projection features of HQL or Criteria queries. This avoids the need for buildtime bytecode processing and is certainly a preferred solution.
You can force the usual eager fetching of properties using fetch all properties
in HQL.
A Hibernate Session
is a transaction-level cache of persistent data. It is possible to configure a cluster or JVM-level (SessionFactory
-level) cache on a class-by-class and collection-by-collection basis. You can even plug in a clustered cache. Be aware that caches are not aware of changes made to the persistent store by another application. They can, however, be configured to regularly expire cached data.
You have the option to tell Hibernate which caching implementation to use by specifying the name of a class that implements org.hibernate.cache.CacheProvider
using the property hibernate.cache.provider_class
. Hibernate is bundled with a number of built-in integrations with the open-source cache providers that are listed in Tabelle 21.1, „Cache-Provider“. You can also implement your own and plug it in as outlined above. Note that versions prior to Hibernate 3.2 use EhCache as the default cache provider.
Tabelle 21.1. Cache-Provider
Cache | Provider-Klasse | Typ | Cluster-sicher | Anfragen-Cache unterstützt |
---|---|---|---|---|
Hash-Tabelle (nicht für den Produktionsgebrauch vorgesehen) | org.hibernate.cache.HashtableCacheProvider | Speicher | Ja | |
EHCache | org.hibernate.cache.EhCacheProvider | memory, disk, transactional, clustered | Ja | Ja |
OSCache | org.hibernate.cache.OSCacheProvider | Speicher, Disk | Ja | |
SwarmCache | org.hibernate.cache.SwarmCacheProvider | geclustert (ip multicast) | ja (geclusterte Außerkraftsetzung) | |
JBoss Cache 1.x | org.hibernate.cache.TreeCacheProvider | geclustert (ip multicast), transaktional | ja (Replikation) | ja (clock sync req.) |
JBoss Cache 2 | org.hibernate.cache.jbc.JBossCacheRegionFactory | geclustert (ip multicast), transaktional | yes (replication or invalidation) | ja (clock sync req.) |
As we have done in previous chapters we are looking at the two different possibiltites to configure caching. First configuration via annotations and then via Hibernate mapping files.
By default, entities are not part of the second level cache and we recommend you to stick to this setting. However, you can override this by setting the shared-cache-mode
element in your persistence.xml
file or by using the javax.persistence.sharedCache.mode
property in your configuration. The following values are possible:
ENABLE_SELECTIVE
(Default and recommended value): entities are not cached unless explicitly marked as cacheable.
DISABLE_SELECTIVE
: entities are cached unless explicitly marked as not cacheable.
ALL
: all entities are always cached even if marked as non cacheable.
NONE
: no entity are cached even if marked as cacheable. This option can make sense to disable second-level cache altogether.
The cache concurrency strategy used by default can be set globaly via the hibernate.cache.default_cache_concurrency_strategy
configuration property. The values for this property are:
read-only
read-write
nonstrict-read-write
transactional
It is recommended to define the cache concurrency strategy per entity rather than using a global one. Use the @org.hibernate.annotations.Cache
annotation for that.
Beispiel 21.5. Definition of cache concurrency strategy via @Cache
@Entity
@Cacheable
@Cache(usage = CacheConcurrencyStrategy.NONSTRICT_READ_WRITE)
public class Forest { ... }
Hibernate also let's you cache the content of a collection or the identifiers if the collection contains other entities. Use the @Cache
annotation on the collection property.
Beispiel 21.6. Caching collections using annotations
@OneToMany(cascade=CascadeType.ALL, fetch=FetchType.EAGER)
@JoinColumn(name="CUST_ID")
@Cache(usage = CacheConcurrencyStrategy.NONSTRICT_READ_WRITE)
public SortedSet<Ticket> getTickets() {
return tickets;
}
Beispiel 21.7, „@Cache annotation with attributes“shows the @org.hibernate.annotations.Cache
annotations with its attributes. It allows you to define the caching strategy and region of a given second level cache.
Beispiel 21.7. @Cache
annotation with attributes
@Cache( CacheConcurrencyStrategy usage(); String reg
ion() default ""; String inc
lude() default "all"; )
usage: the given cache concurrency strategy (NONE, READ_ONLY, NONSTRICT_READ_WRITE, READ_WRITE, TRANSACTIONAL) | |
region (optional): the cache region (default to the fqcn of the class or the fq role name of the collection) | |
|
Let's now take a look at Hibernate mapping files. There the <cache>
element of a class or collection mapping is used to configure the second level cache. Looking at Beispiel 21.8, „The Hibernate <cache> mapping element“ the parallels to anotations is obvious.
Beispiel 21.8. The Hibernate <cache>
mapping element
<cache usage="transactional|read-write|nonstrict-read-write|read-only" region="Re
gionName" include="a
ll|non-lazy" />
| |
| |
|
Alternatively to <cache>
, you can use <class-cache>
and <collection-cache>
elements in hibernate.cfg.xml
.
Let's now have a closer look at the different usage strategies
If your application needs to read, but not modify, instances of a persistent class, a read-only
cache can be used. This is the simplest and optimal performing strategy. It is even safe for use in a cluster.
If the application needs to update data, a read-write
cache might be appropriate. This cache strategy should never be used if serializable transaction isolation level is required. If the cache is used in a JTA environment, you must specify the property hibernate.transaction.manager_lookup_class
and naming a strategy for obtaining the JTA TransactionManager
. In other environments, you should ensure that the transaction is completed when Session.close()
or Session.disconnect()
is called. If you want to use this strategy in a cluster, you should ensure that the underlying cache implementation supports locking. The built-in cache providers do not support locking.
If the application only occasionally needs to update data (i.e. if it is extremely unlikely that two transactions would try to update the same item simultaneously), and strict transaction isolation is not required, a nonstrict-read-write
cache might be appropriate. If the cache is used in a JTA environment, you must specify hibernate.transaction.manager_lookup_class
. In other environments, you should ensure that the transaction is completed when Session.close()
or Session.disconnect()
is called.
The transactional
cache strategy provides support for fully transactional cache providers such as JBoss TreeCache. Such a cache can only be used in a JTA environment and you must specify hibernate.transaction.manager_lookup_class
.
None of the cache providers support all of the cache concurrency strategies.
The following table shows which providers are compatible with which concurrency strategies.
Tabelle 21.2. Cache-Nebenläufigkeitsstrategie-Support
Cache | read-only | nonstrict-read-write | read-write | transactional |
---|---|---|---|---|
Hash-Tabelle (nicht für den Produktionsgebrauch vorgesehen) | Ja | Ja | Ja | |
EHCache | Ja | Ja | Ja | Ja |
OSCache | Ja | Ja | Ja | |
SwarmCache | Ja | Ja | ||
JBoss Cache 1.x | Ja | Ja | ||
JBoss Cache 2 | Ja | Ja |
Whenever you pass an object to save()
, update()
or saveOrUpdate()
, and whenever you retrieve an object using load()
, get()
, list()
, iterate()
or scroll()
, that object is added to the internal cache of the Session
.
When flush()
is subsequently called, the state of that object will be synchronized with the database. If you do not want this synchronization to occur, or if you are processing a huge number of objects and need to manage memory efficiently, the evict()
method can be used to remove the object and its collections from the first-level cache.
Beispiel 21.9. Explcitly evicting a cached instance from the first level cache using Session.evict()
ScrollableResult cats = sess.createQuery("from Cat as cat").scroll(); //a huge result set
while ( cats.next() ) {
Cat cat = (Cat) cats.get(0);
doSomethingWithACat(cat);
sess.evict(cat);
}
Die Session
bietet außerdem eine contains()
-Methode um zu bestimmen, ob eine Instanz zu dem Session-Cache gehört.
To evict all objects from the session cache, call Session.clear()
Für das Cache der zweiten Ebene gibt es in der SessionFactory
definierte Methoden, um den gecachten Status einer Instanz, gesamten Klasse, Collection-Instanz oder der gesamten Collection-Rolle zu räumen.
Beispiel 21.10. Second-level cache eviction via SessionFactoty.evict()
and SessionFacyory.evictCollection()
sessionFactory.evict(Cat.class, catId); //evict a particular Cat
sessionFactory.evict(Cat.class); //evict all Cats
sessionFactory.evictCollection("Cat.kittens", catId); //evict a particular collection of kittens
sessionFactory.evictCollection("Cat.kittens"); //evict all kitten collections
The CacheMode
controls how a particular session interacts with the second-level cache:
CacheMode.NORMAL
: will read items from and write items to the second-level cache
CacheMode.GET
: will read items from the second-level cache. Do not write to the second-level cache except when updating data
CacheMode.PUT
: will write items to the second-level cache. Do not read from the second-level cache
CacheMode.REFRESH
: will write items to the second-level cache. Do not read from the second-level cache. Bypass the effect of hibernate.cache.use_minimal_puts
forcing a refresh of the second-level cache for all items read from the database
Um die Inhalte eines Cache der zweiten Ebene oder eines Cache-Bereichs zu durchsuchen, verwenden Sie die Statistics
-API:
Beispiel 21.11. Browsing the second-level cache entries via the Statistics
API
Map cacheEntries = sessionFactory.getStatistics()
.getSecondLevelCacheStatistics(regionName)
.getEntries();
You will need to enable statistics and, optionally, force Hibernate to keep the cache entries in a more readable format:
Beispiel 21.12. Enabling Hibernate statistics
hibernate.generate_statistics true hibernate.cache.use_structured_entries true
Query result sets can also be cached. This is only useful for queries that are run frequently with the same parameters.
Caching of query results introduces some overhead in terms of your applications normal transactional processing. For example, if you cache results of a query against Person Hibernate will need to keep track of when those results should be invalidated because changes have been committed against Person. That, coupled with the fact that most applications simply gain no benefit from caching query results, leads Hibernate to disable caching of query results by default. To use query caching, you will first need to enable the query cache:
hibernate.cache.use_query_cache true
This setting creates two new cache regions:
org.hibernate.cache.StandardQueryCache
, holding the cached query results
org.hibernate.cache.UpdateTimestampsCache
, holding timestamps of the most recent updates to queryable tables. These are used to validate the results as they are served from the query cache.
If you configure your underlying cache implementation to use expiry or timeouts is very important that the cache timeout of the underlying cache region for the UpdateTimestampsCache be set to a higher value than the timeouts of any of the query caches. In fact, we recommend that the the UpdateTimestampsCache region not be configured for expiry at all. Note, in particular, that an LRU cache expiry policy is never appropriate.
As mentioned above, most queries do not benefit from caching or their results. So by default, individual queries are not cached even after enabling query caching. To enable results caching for a particular query, call org.hibernate.Query.setCacheable(true)
. This call allows the query to look for existing cache results or add its results to the cache when it is executed.
The query cache does not cache the state of the actual entities in the cache; it caches only identifier values and results of value type. For this reaso, the query cache should always be used in conjunction with the second-level cache for those entities expected to be cached as part of a query result cache (just as with collection caching).
If you require fine-grained control over query cache expiration policies, you can specify a named cache region for a particular query by calling Query.setCacheRegion()
.
List blogs = sess.createQuery("from Blog blog where blog.blogger = :blogger")
.setEntity("blogger", blogger)
.setMaxResults(15)
.setCacheable(true)
.setCacheRegion("frontpages")
.list();
If you want to force the query cache to refresh one of its regions (disregard any cached results it finds there) you can use org.hibernate.Query.setCacheMode(CacheMode.REFRESH)
. In conjunction with the region you have defined for the given query, Hibernate will selectively force the results cached in that particular region to be refreshed. This is particularly useful in cases where underlying data may have been updated via a separate process and is a far more efficient alternative to bulk eviction of the region via org.hibernate.SessionFactory.evictQueries()
.
In the previous sections we have covered collections and their applications. In this section we explore some more issues in relation to collections at runtime.
Hibernate unterscheidet drei Grundtypen von Collections:
Collections von Werten
one-to-many associations
many-to-many associations
Diese Klassifizierung unterscheidet die verschiedenen Tabellen- und Fremdschlüsselbeziehungen, aber sagt so gut wie nichts über das relationale Modell aus. Um die relationale Struktur und Performance-Eigenschaften vollständig zu verstehen, müssen wir die Struktur des von Hibernate zur Aktualisierung und Löschung von Reihen der Collection verwendeten Primärschlüssels berücksichtigen. Das legt die folgende Klassifizierung nahe:
indizierte Collections
Sets
Bags
All indexed collections (maps, lists, and arrays) have a primary key consisting of the <key>
and <index>
columns. In this case, collection updates are extremely efficient. The primary key can be efficiently indexed and a particular row can be efficiently located when Hibernate tries to update or delete it.
Sets have a primary key consisting of <key>
and element columns. This can be less efficient for some types of collection element, particularly composite elements or large text or binary fields, as the database may not be able to index a complex primary key as efficiently. However, for one-to-many or many-to-many associations, particularly in the case of synthetic identifiers, it is likely to be just as efficient. If you want SchemaExport
to actually create the primary key of a <set>
, you must declare all columns as not-null="true"
.
<idbag>
mappings define a surrogate key, so they are efficient to update. In fact, they are the best case.
Bags are the worst case since they permit duplicate element values and, as they have no index column, no primary key can be defined. Hibernate has no way of distinguishing between duplicate rows. Hibernate resolves this problem by completely removing in a single DELETE
and recreating the collection whenever it changes. This can be inefficient.
For a one-to-many association, the "primary key" may not be the physical primary key of the database table. Even in this case, the above classification is still useful. It reflects how Hibernate "locates" individual rows of the collection.
From the discussion above, it should be clear that indexed collections and sets allow the most efficient operation in terms of adding, removing and updating elements.
There is, arguably, one more advantage that indexed collections have over sets for many-to-many associations or collections of values. Because of the structure of a Set
, Hibernate does not UPDATE
a row when an element is "changed". Changes to a Set
always work via INSERT
and DELETE
of individual rows. Once again, this consideration does not apply to one-to-many associations.
After observing that arrays cannot be lazy, you can conclude that lists, maps and idbags are the most performant (non-inverse) collection types, with sets not far behind. You can expect sets to be the most common kind of collection in Hibernate applications. This is because the "set" semantics are most natural in the relational model.
However, in well-designed Hibernate domain models, most collections are in fact one-to-many associations with inverse="true"
. For these associations, the update is handled by the many-to-one end of the association, and so considerations of collection update performance simply do not apply.
There is a particular case, however, in which bags, and also lists, are much more performant than sets. For a collection with inverse="true"
, the standard bidirectional one-to-many relationship idiom, for example, we can add elements to a bag or list without needing to initialize (fetch) the bag elements. This is because, unlike a set
, Collection.add()
or Collection.addAll()
must always return true for a bag or List
. This can make the following common code much faster:
Parent p = (Parent) sess.load(Parent.class, id);
Child c = new Child();
c.setParent(p);
p.getChildren().add(c); //no need to fetch the collection!
sess.flush();
Deleting collection elements one by one can sometimes be extremely inefficient. Hibernate knows not to do that in the case of an newly-empty collection (if you called list.clear()
, for example). In this case, Hibernate will issue a single DELETE
.
Suppose you added a single element to a collection of size twenty and then remove two elements. Hibernate will issue one INSERT
statement and two DELETE
statements, unless the collection is a bag. This is certainly desirable.
Nehmen wir jedoch an wir entfernen 18 Elemente, ließen also zwei übrig und fügten dann drei weitere hinzu. In diesem Fall gibt es zwei mögliche Vorgehensweisen:
die 18 Reihen eine nach der anderen löschen und anschließend drei Reihen einfügen
remove the whole collection in one SQL DELETE
and insert all five current elements one by one
Hibernate cannot know that the second option is probably quicker. It would probably be undesirable for Hibernate to be that intuitive as such behavior might confuse database triggers, etc.
Fortunately, you can force this behavior (i.e. the second strategy) at any time by discarding (i.e. dereferencing) the original collection and returning a newly instantiated collection with all the current elements.
One-shot-delete does not apply to collections mapped inverse="true"
.
Optimierungen machen ohne Überwachung und Zugriff auf Performanzzahlen wenig Sinn. Hibernate liefert eine ganze Bandbreite von Zahlen zu seinen internen Vorgängen. Statistiken sind in Hibernate über die SessionFactory
verfügbar.
Sie können auf zwei Arten auf SessionFactory
-Metriken zugreifen. Die erste Möglichkeit ist es, sessionFactory.getStatistics()
aufzurufen und die Statistics
selbst zu lesen und anzuzeigen.
Hibernate can also use JMX to publish metrics if you enable the StatisticsService
MBean. You can enable a single MBean for all your SessionFactory
or one per factory. See the following code for minimalistic configuration examples:
// MBean service registration for a specific SessionFactory
Hashtable tb = new Hashtable();
tb.put("type", "statistics");
tb.put("sessionFactory", "myFinancialApp");
ObjectName on = new ObjectName("hibernate", tb); // MBean object name
StatisticsService stats = new StatisticsService(); // MBean implementation
stats.setSessionFactory(sessionFactory); // Bind the stats to a SessionFactory
server.registerMBean(stats, on); // Register the Mbean on the server
// MBean service registration for all SessionFactory's
Hashtable tb = new Hashtable();
tb.put("type", "statistics");
tb.put("sessionFactory", "all");
ObjectName on = new ObjectName("hibernate", tb); // MBean object name
StatisticsService stats = new StatisticsService(); // MBean implementation
server.registerMBean(stats, on); // Register the MBean on the server
You can activate and deactivate the monitoring for a SessionFactory
:
zum Konfigurationszeitpunkt setzen Sie hibernate.generate_statistics
auf false
zur Runtime: sf.getStatistics().setStatisticsEnabled(true)
oder hibernateStatsBean.setStatisticsEnabled(true)
Statistics can be reset programmatically using the clear()
method. A summary can be sent to a logger (info level) using the logSummary()
method.
Hibernate provides a number of metrics, from basic information to more specialized information that is only relevant in certain scenarios. All available counters are described in the Statistics
interface API, in three categories:
Mit dem allgemeinen Session
-Gebrauch zusammenhängende Metriken wie etwa die Anzahl geöffneter Sessions, abgerufener JDBC-Verbindungen usw.
Metrics related to the entities, collections, queries, and caches as a whole (aka global metrics).
Detaillierte Metriken, die sich auf eine bestimmte Entity, Collection, Anfrage oder Cache-Region beziehen.
For example, you can check the cache hit, miss, and put ratio of entities, collections and queries, and the average time a query needs. Be aware that the number of milliseconds is subject to approximation in Java. Hibernate is tied to the JVM precision and on some platforms this might only be accurate to 10 seconds.
Simple getters are used to access the global metrics (i.e. not tied to a particular entity, collection, cache region, etc.). You can access the metrics of a particular entity, collection or cache region through its name, and through its HQL or SQL representation for queries. Please refer to the Statistics
, EntityStatistics
, CollectionStatistics
, SecondLevelCacheStatistics
, and QueryStatistics
API Javadoc for more information. The following code is a simple example:
Statistics stats = HibernateUtil.sessionFactory.getStatistics();
double queryCacheHitCount = stats.getQueryCacheHitCount();
double queryCacheMissCount = stats.getQueryCacheMissCount();
double queryCacheHitRatio =
queryCacheHitCount / (queryCacheHitCount + queryCacheMissCount);
log.info("Query Hit ratio:" + queryCacheHitRatio);
EntityStatistics entityStats =
stats.getEntityStatistics( Cat.class.getName() );
long changes =
entityStats.getInsertCount()
+ entityStats.getUpdateCount()
+ entityStats.getDeleteCount();
log.info(Cat.class.getName() + " changed " + changes + "times" );
You can work on all entities, collections, queries and region caches, by retrieving the list of names of entities, collections, queries and region caches using the following methods: getQueries()
, getEntityNames()
, getCollectionRoleNames()
, and getSecondLevelCacheRegionNames()
.
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