[jira] Commented: (JDO-630) Support specification of exact class in SingleFieldIdentity

["Andy Jefferson (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Andy Jefferson commented on JDO-630:
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Since in the weekly meeting minutes people were wanting an identity to be non-mutable from construction and after studying the usage of such identities I've come to the conclusion that it would probably be better to just add a new method on the PM (as per the original mailing list request - 22/07/2008). The only place a SingleFieldIdentity "id" can be considered "not exact" is where the user has input it into PM.getObject[s]ById(...) AFAICS. All objects returned by the implementation will have exact ids. All ids returned by PM.getObjectId() will also be exact.

This would imply adding the following :-
Object getObjectById(String id, boolean validate, boolean checkInheritance);
Object[] getObjectsById(boolean validate, boolean checkInheritance, Object... ids);

The other benefit of this would be in terms of memory, one boolean less overhead per object.

Comments ?

> Support specification of exact class in SingleFieldIdentity
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JDO-630
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JDO-630
>             Project: JDO
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: api2
>            Reporter: Andy Jefferson
>             Fix For: JDO 2 maintenance release 3
>
>         Attachments: singlefieldidentity_exact.patch
>
>
> When calling PersistenceManager.getObjectById() with a SingleFieldIdentity, there seems to be no way of avoiding the following 
> (if the implementation decides to do so):
> "It is an implementation decision whether to access the data store, if required to determine the exact class. This will be the case of  inheritance, where multiple <code>PersistenceCapable</code> classes share the same ObjectId class."
> Now when I know for sure that the targetClassName of the given SingleFieldIdentity already denotes the correct class for the given id,  how can I avoid that additional roundtrip to the database for finding the exact class?
> It would be useful to have a way of specifying a SingleFieldIdentity to be for the exact class specified. This could be done by addition of methods
> void setExact(boolean flag);
> boolean getExact();
> to SingleFieldIdentity

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