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Why can returning JPA entities directly from REST controllers create unexpected problems?
Tests whether you know serializing a managed entity can trigger lazy-loading of associations outside the transaction (LazyInitializationException), cause infinite recursion on bidirectional relationships, and leak internal schema details that should be shaped by a DTO instead.
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