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Peter Stavrinides updated TAP5-795: ----------------------------------- Priority: Critical (was: Major) Description: It is mentioned in the documentation that the order in which services are created is not defined when using eagerLoad(). You can get into serious trouble If ordering of eagerloaded services is important (and it often is) by using : binder.bind(ImageService.class).eagerLoad(); It can produce a NPE or work just fine and go undetected, so is a ticking time bomb. Perhaps this method should be renamed to eagerLoadUnordered() or removed entirely, and a way of ordering these would be great to have. An illustrative example is given below with two eagerloaded services (SiteInitialise sets up database connections and the connection pool, ImageService loads a cache of image data, so implicitly requires SiteInitialise to be loaded first). //Example: The shell of the eagerloaded ImageService service public class ImageService { /** Cache to hold thumbnail images */ private static ConcurrentHashMap<Integer, Thumbnail> imageCache_ = new ConcurrentHashMap<Integer, Thumbnail>(); public void preloadImageCache() { DbConnection connection = null; try { //This can potentially turn into a Null Pointer Exception as the startup order is arbitrary connection = DatabaseConnection.getReadConnection(); //database query } catch (Exception e) { //handle exception } } public static ImageService build() { return new ImageService(); } public ImageService() { preloadImageCache(); } } //Workaround: adding a dependency on the other eagerloaded service solves it, but this is not a practical solution if there are many of these services public class ImageService { /** Cache to hold thumbnail images */ private static ConcurrentHashMap<Integer, Thumbnail> imageCache_ = new ConcurrentHashMap<Integer, Thumbnail>(); public void preloadImageCache() { DbConnection connection = null; try { connection = DatabaseConnection.getReadConnection(); //database query } catch (Exception e) { //handle exception } } public static ImageService build(SiteInitialise siteInitialise) { return new ImageService(siteInitialise); } public ImageService(SiteInitialise siteInitialise) { if(siteInitialise.isConnectionOk()) preloadImageCache(); } } was: It is mentioned in the documentation that the order in which services are created is not defined when using eagerLoad(). You can get into serious trouble If ordering of eagerloaded services is important (and it often is) using this : binder.bind(ImageService.class).eagerLoad(); It can produce a NPE or work just fine and go undetected, but is a ticking time bomb. Perhaps this method should be renamed to eagerLoadUnordered() or removed entirely, and a way of ordering these would be great to have. Environment: Any Summary: Tapestry IoC should provide an OderedConfiguration for EagerLoaded services (was: StartupInitializer provides an OderedConfiguration for EagerLoaded services) > Tapestry IoC should provide an OderedConfiguration for EagerLoaded services > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: TAP5-795 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TAP5-795 > Project: Tapestry 5 > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: tapestry-ioc > Affects Versions: 5.1 > Environment: Any > Reporter: Peter Stavrinides > Priority: Critical > > It is mentioned in the documentation that the order in which services are > created is not defined when using eagerLoad(). > You can get into serious trouble If ordering of eagerloaded services is > important (and it often is) by using : > binder.bind(ImageService.class).eagerLoad(); > It can produce a NPE or work just fine and go undetected, so is a ticking > time bomb. Perhaps this method should be renamed to eagerLoadUnordered() or > removed entirely, and a way of ordering these would be great to have. An > illustrative example is given below with two eagerloaded services > (SiteInitialise sets up database connections and the connection pool, > ImageService loads a cache of image data, so implicitly requires > SiteInitialise to be loaded first). > //Example: The shell of the eagerloaded ImageService service > public class ImageService { > /** Cache to hold thumbnail images */ > private static ConcurrentHashMap<Integer, Thumbnail> > imageCache_ = new ConcurrentHashMap<Integer, Thumbnail>(); > > public void preloadImageCache() { > DbConnection connection = null; > try { > //This can potentially turn into a Null Pointer > Exception as the startup order is arbitrary > connection = > DatabaseConnection.getReadConnection(); > //database query > } catch (Exception e) { > //handle exception > } > } > public static ImageService build() { > return new ImageService(); > } > public ImageService() { > preloadImageCache(); > } > } > //Workaround: adding a dependency on the other eagerloaded service solves > it, but this is not a practical solution if there are many of these > services > public class ImageService { > /** Cache to hold thumbnail images */ > private static ConcurrentHashMap<Integer, Thumbnail> > imageCache_ = new ConcurrentHashMap<Integer, Thumbnail>(); > > public void preloadImageCache() { > DbConnection connection = null; > try { > connection = > DatabaseConnection.getReadConnection(); > //database query > } catch (Exception e) { > //handle exception > } > } > public static ImageService build(SiteInitialise > siteInitialise) { > return new ImageService(siteInitialise); > } > public ImageService(SiteInitialise siteInitialise) { > if(siteInitialise.isConnectionOk()) > preloadImageCache(); > } > } -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.