Re: versioning support in POST servlet

[Felix Meschberger <fm...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I have now changed the default for the autoCheckout property of
versioning. This is now "false". I did not change the other property
default values.

Regards
Felix

On 23.09.2010 16:13, Felix Meschberger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am 23.09.2010 15:50, schrieb Justin Edelson:
>> Is the problem you're referring to SLING-1797 or something larger?
> 
> This is just the issue to track the change of the default.
> 
> What I have in mind is effectively the case where something now
> succeeds, which used to fail: modifying a checked-in node.
> 
> Regards
> Felix
> 
>>
>> As far as I know, the only non-backwards-compatible change is that
>> something[1] which would otherwise fail now succeeds. Everything else
>> that was done in SLING-1573 was (or at least should be)
>> backwards-compatible.
>>
>> To me, this type of non-backwards-compatible change is acceptable, but
>> can understand if I'm in the minority on that.
>>
>> Justin
>>
>> [1] modifying a versionable and checked-in node
>>
>> On 9/23/10 3:13 AM, Felix Meschberger wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I just stumbled on a problem we have internally caused by the new
>>> versioning support; so I would like to pick this up again.
>>>
>>> As of SLING-1573 [1] a modification operation by default tries to
>>> checkout and checkin if required. In fact the issue also notes that this
>>> is not strictly backwards compatible.
>>>
>>> IMHO we should really strive for being backwards compatible if at all
>>> possible, particularly in a case where "per-default-enablement" of a new
>>> feature can be done with simple configuration provision.
>>>
>>> Therefore I suggest we should change the default to being "no versioning
>>> at all" (tracked with SLING-1796 [2]).
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Felix
>>>
>>> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-1573
>>> [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-1796
>>>
>>> Am 14.06.2010 17:30, schrieb Justin Edelson:
>>>> I'm starting to hack on the post servlet to get it to support JCR
>>>> versioning. It is actually much simpler than I thought it would be.
>>>> Which leads me to believe I'm missing something big :)
>>>>
>>>> Would appreciate any comments/feedback:
>>>> http://codereview.appspot.com/1690041
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Justin
>>>>
>>
>>