On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Alex Parvulescu
<alex.parvule...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> MicroKernel.getJournal() is currently only used in an "old" indexing
> implementation in oak-core
>
> Old and deprecated, see OAK-298.
> AFAIK all the current indexing code (except the 'old' package which is not
> in use) now uses CommitHook(s) to update, so as long as that mechanism
> works properly life is peachy.
>

thanks, i've created an issue [0].

cheers
stefan

[0] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OAK-384

> alex
>
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Michael Dürig <mdue...@apache.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 17.10.12 15:49, Stefan Guggisberg wrote:
>>
>>> i agree that the ambiguity of '^' vs '+' is confusing. personally i'd
>>> prefer
>>> to get rid of the '+' syntax for property creation altogether. as a
>>> consequence we'd loose the ability to generate PROPERTY_ADDED events
>>> from the mk journal. i don't know whether that's a problem for the
>>> current oak-core implementation.
>>>
>>
>> MicroKernel.getJournal() is currently only used in an "old" indexing
>> implementation in oak-core. Tom or Alex should be able to provide more
>> information on how crucial it is to be able to differentiate  between ^ and
>> + there or whether that implementation will go away completely eventually.
>> Otherwise getJournal() is not used at all. So from my POV it makes sense to
>> remove the '+' syntax since it tends to confuse people.
>>
>> From another angle, since the ^ and + were introduced to be able to
>> differentiate between a setProperty and an addProperty event for JCR
>> observation, couldn't we make the same information also available by
>> providing additional context in the journal (i.e. the previous value of the
>> property or null if none)?
>>
>> Michael
>>

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