I have, sort of, understood this code in the past. It is tricky, you really
have to pay attention. IIRC what it has is a two level cache for (potentially)
every page in the regular cache.
Chuck
On 2011-07-14, at 9:39 AM, Ricardo J. Parada wrote:
>
>
> Oh... for reference that code in ERXAjaxSession.java looks like this:
>
> public void savePage(WOComponent page) {
> ...
>
> // Remove the oldest entry if we're about to add a new one and that
> would put us over the cache size ...
> // We do a CACHE_SIZE*2 here because for every page, we have to
> potentially store its previous contextid to prevent
> // race conditions, so there technically can be 2x cache size many
> pages in the cache.
> boolean removedCacheEntry =
> cleanPageReplacementCacheIfNecessary(pageCacheKey);
> 208: if (!removedCacheEntry && pageReplacementCache.size() >=
> ERXAjaxSession.MAX_PAGE_REPLACEMENT_CACHE_SIZE * 2) {
> Iterator entryIterator = pageReplacementCache.entrySet().iterator();
> Map.Entry oldestEntry = (Map.Entry) entryIterator.next();
> entryIterator.remove();
> if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) logger.debug(pageCacheKey +
> "pageReplacementCache too large, removing oldest entry = " +
> ((TransactionRecord)oldestEntry.getValue()).key());
> }
>
> ...
>
>
>
>
>
> On Jul 14, 2011, at 12:33 PM, Ricardo J. Parada wrote:
>
>> I don't understand the code in ERXAjaxSession.java:208-213 very well but I
>> can see that the size of the page replacement cache referred to by that code
>> is growing with every AJAX request until it is >= two times the size
>> specified by er.extensions.maxPageReplacementCacheSize. From there on it
>> removes entries from there.
>>
>> At this point if I close the dialog (AMD) and then click on the link on the
>> page I get the "You backtracked too far" error.
>>
>> Anybody understands that code? :-)
>>
>> I'm gonna compare with my test Wonder app which all it has is the AMD and
>> link on the page to test this and try to find out why I don't get the error
>> there.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jul 14, 2011, at 12:11 PM, Ricardo J. Parada wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't get the error if I set er.extensions.maxPageReplacementCacheSize=50
>>> in my Properties.dev file.
>>>
>>> So now I'm focusing on ERXAjaxSession.java:208-213 to see if that code to
>>> try to figure out if that code has anything to do with the problem I have
>>> when I reduce the cache size.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jul 13, 2011, at 10:36 PM, Alexis Tual wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> have you tried to raise the er.extensions.maxPageReplacementCacheSize
>>>> (default is 30) ? It should delay the page restauration error, not fixing
>>>> the real issue... and if you have few users and enough memory, it might be
>>>> the cheapest way to get it done.
>>>> Anyway, I filled a jira for this a year ago
>>>> http://issues.objectstyle.org/jira/browse/WONDER-545 (Don't try the
>>>> attached patch though, it's worse :))
>>>>
>>>> Still in Quebec, back to Poutine free area soon
>>>>
>>>> Alex
>>>>
>>>> Le 12 juil. 2011 à 19:29, Ricardo J. Parada a écrit :
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Jul 12, 2011, at 5:53 PM, Chuck Hill wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Jul 12, 2011, at 2:45 PM, Ricardo J. Parada wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Jul 12, 2011, at 4:52 PM, Chuck Hill wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi Ricardo,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Jul 12, 2011, at 1:35 PM, Ricardo J. Parada wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Does anybody have an idea what could be causing this problem? The
>>>>>>>>> user clicks on an AjaxModalDialogOpener which opens the dialog. Then
>>>>>>>>> the user does a whole bunch of stuff in the dialog that involves many
>>>>>>>>> clicks
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Does it still happen if they don't make so many clicks?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If they make a few clicks then it works okay.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> then finally clicks a DONE link to close the dialog.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Are all of these links and clicks Ajax actions?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yes, they are clicking on links generated by AjaxSubmitButton
>>>>>>> components to be exact. :-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And you are certain that there are no /wo/ or /wa/ requests mixed in
>>>>>> here?
>>>>>
>>>>> I set this property in my Properties.dev:
>>>>>
>>>>> log4j.logger.er.extensions.ERXApplication.RequestHandling=DEBUG
>>>>>
>>>>> and then I looked at all the uri's of the requests coming in. They have
>>>>> /ajax/ in there and when the dialog first comes up I see a few /_wr_/ and
>>>>> I guess the browser caches those since I don't see requests for those
>>>>> anymore on subsequent requests after the dialog is displayed.
>>>>>
>>>>> All the requests for the "many clicks" I mentioned have /ajax/ in them.
>>>>> I don't see any /wo/ requests mixed in.
>>>>>
>>>>> Also I set a breakpoint in ERXAjaxSession.java at the only place it calls
>>>>> super.savePage() where I assume the current page would be saved but I
>>>>> never hit the breakpoint. I would think that regular component requests
>>>>> would be generating new context IDs and therefore saving the page in the
>>>>> cache for those context IDs. But I don't see the page getting saved. :-/
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The dialog has a closeUpdateContainerID bound with the id of an ajax
>>>>>>>>> update container to refresh, which it does refresh upon closing the
>>>>>>>>> dialog. But then the user clicks on a link on the page that is
>>>>>>>>> outside the refreshed AjaxUpdateContainer and the app displays the
>>>>>>>>> error "You backtracked too far. The application backtracking limit
>>>>>>>>> of 30 has been exceeded."
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Ajax links or regular component actions links? I do what seems to be
>>>>>>>> the same thing (except maybe the "does a whole bunch of stuff in the
>>>>>>>> dialog") and have not had any problems.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> They are regular component action links. The context ID for which the
>>>>>>> page is being restored is 22.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The original URL is 21?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, I just put in there a <wo:link string="test" action="$test"/> and
>>>>> by inspecting that link after I close the ajax modal dialog and the
>>>>> update container refreshes the href for the link is:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://192.168.1.9:53295/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Phynance.woa/wo/EmqPpwSYBiOiS7PPSLDXzw/8.0.0.9.1.1.13.1.5.1.2.1.1.3.51
>>>>>
>>>>> and clicking that generates the "You backtracked too far" error.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The key to tracking this down is to know if it is the Ajax or the
>>>>>>>> regular page cache that is missing the component.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm stepping through the restorePageForContextID() in
>>>>>>> ERXAjaxSession.java but I'm not sure what to look for.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sorry, I just meant if the URL that caused the error was a /ajax/ or
>>>>>> /wo/ URL. It sounds like a /wo/ URL so that suggests to me that
>>>>>> something in your dialog is generating /wo/ or /wa/ requests that are
>>>>>> pushing the page out of the standard page cache.
>>>>>
>>>>> I did not see any /wo/ nor /wa/ requests. They are all /ajax/ requests.
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe I'll try to create a test Wonder app with an ajax modal dialog with
>>>>> a single ajax link in it that displays the current time when clicked...
>>>>> Then I can click it many many times. Then close the dialog and then
>>>>> click on a link on the page afterwards to see if I can reproduce.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Chuck
>>>>>>
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