Hi Jacopo,

I'm trying to find where the logic described above is happening, am I in
the right place at ServiceDispatcher on the runAsync method right next to
the checking of pre-auth ECA rules?

Taher Alkhateeb

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 5:45 PM, Jacopo Cappellato <
jacopo.cappell...@hotwaxsystems.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am sharing here the result of an analysis that Nameet Jain and I did to
> figure out why, under some circumstances the same seca service was executed
> twice.
>
> The problem is that, when a service is executed as "async" the secas
> attached to the "auth" and "in-validate" events are executed two times: at
> the time of the call and later at the time of execution.
>
> Here are the details:
>
> when you call a service using the async method the following events occur
> immediately (i.e. synchronously at the time of the call):
>
> 1) all SECAs with event="auth" are executed
> 2) the user authorization to call the service is checked
> 3) all SECAs with event="in-validate" are executed
> 4) the service input parameters are validated
> 5) the service is submitted for later execution (e.g. added to the
> JobSandbox)
>
> After some time, the job scheduler picks the job from the queue and then
> executes it with a *sync* call; at this point all the events that you would
> expect to be executed during a sync call occur:
>
> 1) all SECAs with event="auth" are executed
> 2) the user authorization to call the service is checked
> 3) all SECAs with event="in-validate" are executed
> 4) the service input parameters are validated
> 5) all SECAs with event="invoke" are executed
> 6) the service is executed
> 7) all SECAs with event="out-validate" are executed
> 8) the service output parameters are validated
> 9) all SECAs with event="return" are executed
> 10) there are also other SECAs that are scheduled for execution at
> transaction level; the ones with events: "commit", "global-commit",
> "global-commit-post-run", "global-rollback"
>
> As you can see the steps #1, #2, #3 and #4 are executed twice when the
> service is called with the runAsync method and specifically all the SECAs
> of events "auth" and "in-validate" are executed twice.
>
> Proposed fix: we could simply remove the execution of "auth" and
> "in-validate" secas when the async service is invoked, and defer their
> execution at the time the service is actually executed (i.e. picked from
> the queue and run).
>
> Any comments?
>
> Jacopo
>

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