LEFT (OUTER) JOIN problem when mappedBy is defined

Hi all,

I want to get objects with their lists, even when the lists are empty. So I've witten this query:

"SELECT i FROM Invoice i LEFT OUTER JOIN i.itemList items"

But this query never returns invoices without items! Only invoices with items.

When I remove mappedBy from @OneToMany annotation, LEFT JOIN works correctly.

Is this normal behaviour?

Thank you

Michael

Sample application

public class JavaApplication {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        com.objectdb.Enhancer.enhance("javaapplication.*");
       
        EntityManagerFactory emf =
            Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("$objectdb/db/test.odb");
        EntityManager em = emf.createEntityManager();

        em.getTransaction().begin();
        Invoice i1 = new Invoice("1");
        em.persist(i1);
        Invoice i2 = new Invoice("2");
        i2.getItemList().add(new InvoiceItem(i2));
        em.persist(i2);
        Invoice i3 = new Invoice("3");
        em.persist(i3);
        em.getTransaction().commit();

        Query query = em.createQuery(
            "SELECT i FROM Invoice i LEFT OUTER JOIN i.itemList items");
        List resultList = query.getResultList();
        System.out.println(resultList);

        em.close();
        emf.close();
    }
}


@Entity
public class Invoice {
   
    @OneToMany(mappedBy = "invoice", fetch= FetchType.EAGER, orphanRemoval=true, cascade= CascadeType.ALL)
    private List<InvoiceItem> itemList = new ArrayList<InvoiceItem>();
    private String name;
    public Invoice(String name){
        this.name = name;
    }
    public List<InvoiceItem> getItemList() {
        return itemList;
    }
    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return name;
    }
}


@Entity
public class InvoiceItem{
   
    @ManyToOne
    private Invoice invoice;
   
    InvoiceItem(Invoice i) {
        this.invoice = i;
    }
}