I have a domain object, Expense, that has a field called initialFields.

It's annotated as so:

@OneToMany(fetch = FetchType.EAGER, cascade = { CascadeType.ALL }, orphanRemoval = true)
@JoinTable(blah blah)
private final List<Field> initialFields;

Now I'm trying to use Projections in order to only pull certain fields for performance reasons, but when doing so the initialFields field is always null. It's the only OneToMany field and the only field I am trying to retrieve with the projection that is behaving this way. If I use a regular HQL query initialFields is populated appropriately, but of course I can't limit the fields.

Anyone ever seen anything like this?