please have a look at the test case MtoNTest#testDeletionFromBothTables (auto-delete ON)
and MtoNTest#testDeletionFromIntermediaryTable (auto-delete OFF).
the first one fails because ojb only deletes from intermediary table. collection is not removal aware.
jakob
Edson Carlos Ericksson Richter wrote:
(this is a real long mail, but I've made a long research. The first part is the reason I started to research, the second is explain why this occur. The third is a suggestion of how can we correct).
FIRST PART: Ok. To avoid the problem related to OJB always using RemovalAwareCollection, I put my beans to work as
public class A { private ArrayList myColl = new ArrayList();
public void setMyCollection( List collection ) { this.myColl.clear; this.myColl.addAll( collection ); } public List getMyCollection( ) {return this.myColl;} }
Doing this, I'm converting from RemovalAwareCollection to ArrayList. Fine.
Now suppose that I want auto-delete="true". Then I
getMyCollection().remove(0);
and then persist the object. Theorically, OJB should delete the object from indirection table AND the referenced table (the N side, ok?). This not occur. OJB deletes only from indirection table (the auto-delete option makes no difference).
If I change the code to
public class A { private List myColl;
public void setMyCollection( List collection ) { this.myColl=collection; } public List getMyCollection( ) {return this.myColl;} }
then it works (because the collection passed to setter is RemovalAwareCollection). BUT, if I put auto-delete="false", then OJB still delete the indirection table AND the referenced table (again, the auto-delete option makes no difference).
SECOND PART: To the facts: since OJB is using RemovalAwareCollection, after the correct treatment for M:N non-decomposable queries (that my debugging show that it is working like a charm), the following code is being executed:
// invoke callback on collection if (col instanceof ManageableCollection) { ((ManageableCollection) col).afterStore(this); }
That is deleting the real objects, even if auto-delete="false".
THIRD PART: The method deleteMtoNImplementor(...) should reset the "allObjectsToBeRemoved" in RemovalAwareCollection if the auto-delete option is set to false. What do you think? Something like create a RemovalAware interface. Make all classes (RemovalAwareCollection, and RemovalAwareList in my case) implement it. Then do
public interface RemovalAware {
public void resetDeleted(); }
The resetDelete method implementation is just
public void resetDeleted( ) { allObjectsToBeRemoved.clear(); }
and then change PersistentBrokerImpl to
currentMtoNKeys = getMtoNImplementor(cds, obj); // delete unused m:n implementors deleteMtoNImplementor(cds, obj, (Collection)col, currentMtoNKeys);
if( col instanceof ManageableCollection && !cds.getCascadeDelete() ) { Collection testCol; if( col instanceof CollectionProxy ) { testCol = ( ( CollectionProxy )col ).getData(); } else { testCol = ( Collection )col; }
if( testCol instanceof RemovalAware ) { ( ( RemovalAware )testCol ).resetDeleted(); } }
This make M:N suff work working. I'm using CVS HEAD.
Thanks for your patience.
Edson Richter
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