synchronization in flow script

[Joerg Heinicke <jo...@gmx.de>]

Hello,

I have a question regarding synchronization in flow script. I need an object per
session, so the instantiation must be synchronized. Furthermore the object is an
Avalon component, so I need to call something like cocoon.createComponent().

Now how is it possible in Flow script? The alternative would be a synchronized
static factory method in the class, but how can I get the Avalon lifecycle then?

Joerg

Re: synchronization in flow script

[Joerg Heinicke <jo...@gmx.de>]

Sylvain Wallez <sylvain <at> apache.org> writes:

> 
> Joerg Heinicke wrote:
> 
> >Hello,
> >
> >I have a question regarding synchronization in flow script. I need an object
> >per session, so the instantiation must be synchronized. Furthermore the object
> >is an Avalon component, so I need to call something like
> >cocoon.createComponent().
> >
> >Now how is it possible in Flow script? The alternative would be a synchronized
> >static factory method in the class, but how can I get the Avalon lifecycle
> >then?
> >  
> >
> 
> Flowscript execution is synchonized on the Rhino scope, which is either 
> the global (per-session) scope for a function call and the continuation 
> scope for continuation call.
> 
> So what about simply declaring a global variable in your flowscript, 
> created using cocoon.createComponent()?

Hello Sylvain,

I tested the following two solutions. The first one does not work - more or less
like expected as the variable is not initialized immediately via getComponent(). 

=====================================================================

// not synchronized, but works like expected otherwise

var queryHandler;

function getQueryHandler(create) {
  if (queryHandler == null && create) {
    queryHandler = cocoon.getComponent(QueryHandler.ROLE);
    cocoon.session.setAttribute(QueryHandler.ROLE, queryHandler);
  } else if (queryHandler == null) {
    throw new ProcessingException("Could not find a query handler.");
  }
  return queryHandler;
}

=====================================================================

Unfortunately the second one does neither work. Though the access is indeed
synchronized, the initialization of the variable is executed on every call to a
function in this flowscript. I wonder if this behaviour is correct. Maybe I have
a false understanding "how it works", but I understand the global stuff as
something like static stuff in Java - and static initialization is only executed
once in Java.

=====================================================================

// synchronized, but executed on each flowscript call

var queryHandler = cocoon.getComponent(QueryHandler.ROLE);

function getQueryHandler(create) {
  cocoon.session.setAttribute(QueryHandler.ROLE, queryHandler);
  return queryHandler;
}

=====================================================================

// called from sitemap

function initQuery() {
  var queryHandler = getQueryHandler(true);
  ...
}

function executeQuery() {
  var queryHandler = getQueryHandler();
  ...
}

=====================================================================

Do you have another idea?

Joerg

Re: synchronization in flow script

[Sylvain Wallez <sy...@apache.org>]

Joerg Heinicke wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I have a question regarding synchronization in flow script. I need an object per
>session, so the instantiation must be synchronized. Furthermore the object is an
>Avalon component, so I need to call something like cocoon.createComponent().
>
>Now how is it possible in Flow script? The alternative would be a synchronized
>static factory method in the class, but how can I get the Avalon lifecycle then?
>  
>

Flowscript execution is synchonized on the Rhino scope, which is either 
the global (per-session) scope for a function call and the continuation 
scope for continuation call.

So what about simply declaring a global variable in your flowscript, 
created using cocoon.createComponent()?

Sylvain

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