On 28/09/2013, at 12:52 AM, Jean-François Veillette 
<jean_francois_veille...@yahoo.ca> wrote:

> You might consider using a brand new EOF stack (create a new Object Store 
> Coordinator) for the background task.  The advantage would be that you are 
> the only on using the database connection, no jdbc locking problem with the 
> main thread.
> The disadvantage is that you do not share the snapshot, so that even with a 
> fetch from global id you will go down to the database since your snapshot 
> cache is still empty.
> 
> As a generic way of doing, I would seriously consider going that route.  To 
> make it easier to work with, I would have an api on the background task 
> object to give you the editing context for that specific background task, 
> then (from your main thread) you can fill it up, prepare, fetch, do whatever, 
> then when you really detach the background thread (the main thread no longer 
> have pointer to that editingContext), it is really independent and has no 
> impact on the main thread (you are safe).
> 
> If you want to be « generic » and allow your object to be called while 
> processing the report is going on, you could make an api where the background 
> task invoke a « target » with an « action » (remember something?) that you 
> gave it first.  That way, you could (by giving the right « target ») access 
> the context that triggered the report.

Thanks Jean-François.  Great ideas.


-- 
Paul Hoadley
http://logicsquad.net/



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