关于Spring的CrudRepository返回Entity的问题

各位高手，我在使用hibernate、jpa、springdata集成时遇到了如下的问题：

1.model

@Entity
@Table(name="group",schema="sc")
@Inheritance(strategy =  InheritanceType.TABLE_PER_CLASS)
public class Group extends AbstractEntity
{
    ...
    
    @ElementCollection(fetch= FetchType.EAGER)
    @NotNull
    @Column(name="user")
    @CollectionTable(name = "t_group_users", schema = "sc", joinColumns = @JoinColumn(name = "group_id"))
    private List<String> users;
}

2.repository

public interface GroupRepository extends CrudRepository<Group, UUID>
{
}

3.config

@Configuration
@EnableJpaRepositories(basePackages = { "com.**.**" })
public class RepositoryTestConfig
{
    @Bean
    public PlatformTransactionManager transactionManager(EntityManagerFactory emf)
    {
        JpaTransactionManager transactionManager = new JpaTransactionManager();
        transactionManager.setEntityManagerFactory(emf);

        return transactionManager;
    }

    @Bean
    public LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean entityManagerFactory(DataSource dataSource)
    {
        LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean emfb = new LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean();
        emfb.setDataSource(dataSource());
        emfb.setJpaVendorAdapter(jpaVendorAdapter());
        emfb.setPackagesToScan("com.**.**.model");

        Properties properties = new Properties();
        properties.setProperty("hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto", "create");
        properties.setProperty("hibernate.format_sql", "true");
        emfb.setJpaProperties(properties);

        return emfb;
    }

    @Bean
    public JpaVendorAdapter jpaVendorAdapter()
    {
        HibernateJpaVendorAdapter adapter = new HibernateJpaVendorAdapter();
        adapter.setDatabase(Database.H2);
        adapter.setShowSql(false);
        adapter.setGenerateDdl(false);
        adapter.setDatabasePlatform("org.hibernate.dialect.H2Dialect");

        return adapter;
    }

    @Bean(name = "testFunctionDataSource")
    public DataSource dataSource()
    {
        DriverManagerDataSource dataSource = new DriverManagerDataSource();
        dataSource.setDriverClassName("org.h2.Driver");
        dataSource.setUrl("jdbc:h2:~/test;INIT=CREATE SCHEMA IF NOT EXISTS sc");
        dataSource.setUsername("sa");
        dataSource.setPassword("");

        return dataSource;
    }
}

但我使用groupRepository.findOne方法时，users返回的是org.hibernate.collection.internal.PersistentBag类型，而不是ArrayList类型，请问是什么原因？

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这个PersistentBag也是List的一种实现。Hibernate为啥不直接用ArrayList呢，因为它要支持懒加载，所以需要在类似ArrayList实现的基础上再包装一层。比如你调用List的get、size之类的方法，如果是懒加载，这个PersistentBag会先去把数据从数据库里面读进来，再做操作。如果是Eager的（就像你的代码设置的），那么就和一般的ArrayList没啥区别了。

对于用户来说，是没什么感受的，你就把他当List用就好。