Hi > Am 08.04.2015 um 11:12 schrieb Michael Dürig <mdue...@apache.org>: > > > > On 8.4.15 10:57 , Julian Reschke wrote: >>> Turns out that checking for item existence before accessing the item >>> is JCR API best practice. So Sling follows best practice. >> >> Why would it be best practice?
Hmm, yes, looks like I misread something. So while it may not be JCR API best practices, using exceptions for flow control is not really good and actually expensive also considering: >> You need to handle an exception anyway >> (due to possible race conditions). > > With Oak you generally don't have such races thanks to MVCC. But in general > you are right, checking existence before access is prone to races. Indeed, I would not know of a case where such a race condition really created an issue in reality … Regards Felix
