How to load a full graph of 2 entities that are in relationship #OneToMany each other with a Join Table - spring-boot

Question

I'm using Spring Boot and Spring Data and I have a problem when trying to load entities using JPA and EntityGraph.
I have a Patient and Insurance entities. Each Patient can have many Insurances and each Insurance can be assigned to many patients. I decided to use a Join Table PatientInsurance because I need to store extra fields like 'active', and also the relation code (a Patient can be a Member, Spouse, or Child for that specific insurance).
Using Spring Data repositories I annotated the method to find a patient, with an EntityGraph, to have ready the list of PatientInsurances (and Insurances) for that patient in one query.
This is the code (I removed the non-necessary parts in the scope)
Patient class
#Entity
#Table(name = "patient")
public class Patient {
#NotNull
#NotEmpty
#Column(length = 60, nullable = false)
private String patientFirstName;
#NotNull
#NotEmpty
#Column(length = 60, nullable = false)
private String patientLastName;
#OneToMany(fetch = FetchType.LAZY, mappedBy = "patient", cascade = {CascadeType.PERSIST, CascadeType.MERGE, CascadeType.REFRESH})
List<PatientInsurance> patientsInsurances = new ArrayList<>();
public void addPatientInsurance(PatientInsurance patientIns) {
if (!patientsInsurances.contains(patientIns)) {
patientsInsurances.add(patientIns);
}
}
//other properties...
Insurance class
#Entity
#Table(name = "insurance")
public class Insurance {
#Column(name = "policy_id", length = 20)
private String policyId;
#OneToMany(mappedBy = "insurance", fetch = FetchType.LAZY,cascade = {CascadeType.PERSIST, CascadeType.MERGE, CascadeType.REFRESH})
private List<PatientInsurance> patientsInsurances = new ArrayList<PatientInsurance>();
public void addPatientInsurance(PatientInsurance patientIns) {
if (!patientsInsurances.contains(patientIns)) {
patientsInsurances.add(patientIns);
}
}
//other properties
Entity for the join table between patient and insurance (needed a join table for extra field in this entity like active and relCode
#Entity
#IdClass(PatientInsurance.PatientInsurancePK.class)
#Table(name = "patient_insurance")
public class PatientInsurance implements Serializable {
#Id
#ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
#JoinColumn(name = "patient_id")
private Patient patient;
#Id
#ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
#JoinColumn(name = "insurance_id")
private Insurance insurance;
#Column(name = "active")
private boolean active;
#Column(length = 1)
private String relCode;
public PatientInsurance() {
insurance = new Insurance();
patient = new Patient();
}
public PatientInsurance(Patient p, Insurance i, boolean active, String relCode) {
this.patient = p;
this.insurance = i;
this.active = active;
this.relCode = relCode;
p.addPatientInsurance(this);
i.addPatientInsurance(this);
}
public Patient getPatient() {
return patient;
}
public Insurance getInsurance() {
return insurance;
}
public void setInsurance(Insurance insurance) {
this.insurance = insurance;
insurance.addPatientInsurance(this);
}
public boolean isActive() {
return active;
}
public void setActive(boolean active) {
this.active = active;
}
public void setPatient(Patient patient) {
this.patient = patient;
patient.addPatientInsurance(this);
}
public String getRelCode() {
return relCode;
}
public void setRelCode(String relCode) {
this.relCode = relCode;
}
static public class PatientInsurancePK implements Serializable {
protected Patient patient;
protected Insurance insurance;
public PatientInsurancePK() {
}
public PatientInsurancePK(Patient patient, Insurance insurance) {
this.patient = patient;
this.insurance = insurance;
}
#Override
public boolean equals(Object o) {
if (this == o) return true;
if (!(o instanceof PatientInsurancePK)) return false;
PatientInsurancePK that = (PatientInsurancePK) o;
if (!patient.equals(that.patient)) return false;
return insurance.equals(that.insurance);
}
#Override
public int hashCode() {
int result = (patient != null) ? patient.hashCode() : 0;
result = 31 * result + ((insurance != null) ? insurance.hashCode() : 0);
return result;
}
}
}
Implementation of the PatientService
#Transactional
#Service("patientService")
public class PatientServiceImpl implements PatientService {
#Autowired
PatientRepository patientRepository;
#Override
public Optional<Patient> findByIdFull(Long id) {
Optional<Patient> patient = patientRepository.findById(id);
return patient;
}
//other methods...
Patient Repository
public interface PatientRepository extends JpaRepository<Patient, Long> {
#EntityGraph(
attributePaths = {
"patientsInsurances",
"patientsInsurances.patient",
"patientsInsurances.insurance"},
type = EntityGraph.EntityGraphType.LOAD)
Optional<Patient> findById(Long id);
A snippet of code that calls the method in PatientService
Optional<Patient> patientOptional = patientService.findByIdFull(p.getId());
if (patientOptional.isPresent()) {
Patient patient1 = patientOptional.get();
List<PatientInsurance> patientInsurances = patient1.getPatientInsurances();
PatientInsurances patientInsurance = patientInsurances.get(0);
Patient patient2 = patientInsurance.getPatient(); //and this is same istance of patient1, it's ok
Insurance insurance = patientInsurance.getInsurance();
//here is the problem!!!
insurance.getPatientInsurances();
//Unable to evaluate the expression Method threw 'org.hibernate.LazyInitializationException' exception.
So the problem seems that when I go inside the patient side, I can loop into his Insurances without problems, but when I try to do the same starting from the Insurance instance, I cannot loop into its patients cause they are lazily loaded.
So how to make jpa download the full graph in the correct way?