Hibernate does null check initialize lazy entity?

Question

Say I have an entity Parent with a related entity Child (nullable) with a @OneToMany(fetch = FetchType.LAZY) relationship

In my action bean, would the following code initialise the child entity?

boolean hasChild = false;

if(parent.getChild()!=null){
    hasChild = true;
}

I see in the docs it says Lazy collection fetching: a collection is fetched when the application invokes an operation upon that collection. This is the default for collections. but wasn't sure if a null check is classed as an operation

Thanks

Answer 1

Null check can initialize entity. Use Hibernate.isInitialized() instead.