Hello there,
I've just bumped into a new problem. Unless I am doing something wrong, it does not seem the remote synchronizer helps in this scenario; and I wonder, whether there are some well-known and common tricks to solve it in general?
The scenario is quite plain:
(a) instance A gets and stores (typically into some sort of cache, but a plain component property suffices[*]) a relationship of some EO for the first time. Thus, it, in fact, gets and stores a fault;
(b) instance B updates "some EO" to clean up the relationship and deletes the target object.
- the Remote Synchronizer does make sure that "some EO"'s relationship is NULL now in instance A;
- nevertheless, it does not do anything at all with the stored fault
(c) instance A uses the stored "EO" (which its code essentialy does not know is a fault) -- and oops, it gets DatabaseContextDelegate.databaseContextFailedToFetchObject.
(Well one wonders, whether this might be the reason why WebObjects by themselves do not throw when a fault fails, but try to re-construct the object _somehow_)
Anyway, to be quite frank, I don't see a decent solution of this problem? If I wrote my code afresh, I could make sure this never happens, but since I've got zillions of legacy Java lines in my project (which might store faults freely, after all, that's
what faults are for), I don't see a solution which would ensure my application can't fail and either work improperly or report weird errors to users.
Has anybody already found a decent solution of this problem (save for “re-writing all the legacy code”, which, albeit of course optimal, is sort of not manageable any time soon)?
Thanks a lot,
OC
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[*] like with a very plain code -- the real cases are much more complex, but this one suffices to show the problem
class MyComponent extends ERXComponent {
SomeEOClass stored;
public MyComponent(WOContext context) {
super(context);
stored=someEO.someRelationship();
}
public WOComponent nowUseIt() {
println "$stored"
}
}
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