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Kevin Sutter commented on OPENJPA-235:
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Can someone summarize the current state of this JIRA report?  From the comments 
and the commits, it sounds like Patrick has committed at least a partial 
solution, but there are still some holes based on the original JIRA report.  I 
have not seen another patch posted after Patrick's commits on June 06 and 07, 
except for testcase patches.

So, what are we waiting on?  Do we have additional code patches or commits 
required to finish up this report?  It sounds like Markus is working on an 
implementation, but is to resolve this Issue or a new proposal?  What about the 
testcases?  Patrick integrated some changes for the testcases, but are they 
complete?

Thanks,
Kevin

> SQL reordering to avoid non-nullable foreign key constraint violations
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: OPENJPA-235
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENJPA-235
>             Project: OpenJPA
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: kernel
>            Reporter: Reece Garrett
>            Assignee: Patrick Linskey
>             Fix For: 0.9.8
>
>         Attachments: merge-detached.patch, 
> merge-multigen-collection-testcase.zip, openjpa-235-test.jar, 
> openjpa-235-test1.jar, openjpa-235-test2.zip, sqlreorder.patch, 
> sqlReorder2.patch, sqlReorderTests.patch
>
>
> OpenJPA does not do any SQL statement re-ordering in order to resolve foreign 
> key constraints. Instead, objects are always inserted in the order in which 
> the user persists the instances.  When you persist in an order that would 
> violate foreign key constraints, OpenJPA attempts to insert null and then 
> update the foreign key value in a separate statement. If you use non-nullable 
> constraints, though, you must persist your objects in the correct order.
> This improvement re-orders SQL statements as follows:
> 1. First, all insert statements execute. Inserts which have foreign keys with 
> non-nullable constraints execute AFTER the foreign keys which they depend on 
> have been inserted since no deferred update is possible.
> 2. Next, all update statements execute. No reordering is necessary.
> 3.  Finally, all delete statements execute. Like inserts, deletes execute in 
> an order which does not violate non-nullable foreign key constraints.
> If a circular foreign key reference is found during the re-ordering process 
> then re-ordering halts and the remaining unordered statements are left as is. 
> There is nothing that can be done about the circular reference (other than 
> fixing the schema) and the resulting SQL statements will not succeed.
> The net effect is that users do not need to worry about the persistence order 
> of their objects regardless of non-nullable foreign key constraints. The only 
> class modified was 
> org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.kernel.OperationOrderUpdateManager. I have included a 
> patch which includes my modifications to OperationOrderUpdateManager and test 
> cases. The test cases I have provided fail on the current trunk but pass with 
> my modifications. I have also verified that I did not break anything by using 
> maven to run all test cases with my modifications in place.

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