Re: Optimistic locking and concurrency within the same application

From: Paulo Andrade (pauloandrad..st.utl.pt)
Date: Sun Oct 31 2010 - 16:22:54 UTC


OK, figured out what was going on. There's a checkbox on Cayenne Modeler that toggles optimistic locking for that entity on or off. I only had the attributes marked for locking and didn't see that checkbox.

It is now throwing an OL exception as it should.

On Oct 30, 2010, at 3:53 PM, Paulo Andrade wrote:

> So I went ahead and did a bit of testing:
>
> I created an app that would execute the following code (the model as an entity named "Counter" with a "value" property marked for locking):
>
> ----------
> ObjectContext context = DataContext.createDataContext();
>
> Counter counter = context.newObject(Counter.class);
> counter.setValue(3);
>
> context.commitChanges();
>
> // Create our two peer contexts
> ObjectContext context1 = DataContext.createDataContext();
> ObjectContext context2 = DataContext.createDataContext();
>
> // Instantiate object on context1
> Counter counter1 = (Counter) context1.localObject(counter.getObjectId(), null);
> LOG.debug("Context1 read counter with value "+ counter.getValue());
>
> // Instantiate object on context2
> Counter counter2 = (Counter) context2.localObject(counter.getObjectId(), null);
> LOG.debug("Context2 read counter with value "+ counter.getValue());
>
> // Context1 makes changes
> counter1.setValue(counter1.getValue() + 1);
> LOG.debug("Counter1 incremented to value " +counter1.getValue());
>
> // Context2 makes changes
> counter2.setValue(counter2.getValue() + 1);
> LOG.debug("Counter2 incremented to value " +counter2.getValue());
>
> // Context1 commit
> context1.commitChanges();
>
> // Context2 commit
> context2.commitChanges();
> ----------
>
> Now what I would like is for context2.commitChanges() to fail, since this commit would write the value 4 which is already on the database thus failling to increment the value.
>
> If we take a look at the query logging you can see that the last commit has a 4 on the where clause (which I feel should be a 3).
>
> ----------
> [INFO] access.QueryLogger +++ Connecting: SUCCESS.
> [INFO] access.QueryLogger --- transaction started.
> [INFO] access.QueryLogger Detected and installed adapter: org.apache.cayenne.dba.postgres.PostgresAdapter
> [INFO] access.QueryLogger SELECT nextval('pk_counter')
> [INFO] access.QueryLogger --- will run 1 query.
> [INFO] access.QueryLogger INSERT INTO Counter (id, value) VALUES (?, ?)
> [INFO] access.QueryLogger [batch bind: 1->id:240, 2->value:3]
> [INFO] access.QueryLogger === updated 1 row.
> [INFO] access.QueryLogger +++ transaction committed.
> [DEBUG] pages.Index Context1 read counter with value 3
> [DEBUG] pages.Index Context2 read counter with value 3
> [INFO] access.QueryLogger --- will run 1 query.
> [INFO] access.QueryLogger --- transaction started.
> [INFO] access.QueryLogger SELECT t0.value, t0.id FROM Counter t0 WHERE t0.id = ? [bind: 1->id:240] - prepared in 10 ms.
> [INFO] access.QueryLogger === returned 1 row. - took 18 ms.
> [INFO] access.QueryLogger +++ transaction committed.
> [DEBUG] pages.Index Counter1 incremented to value 4
> [INFO] access.QueryLogger --- will run 1 query.
> [INFO] access.QueryLogger --- transaction started.
> [INFO] access.QueryLogger SELECT t0.value, t0.id FROM Counter t0 WHERE t0.id = ? [bind: 1->id:240]
> [INFO] access.QueryLogger === returned 1 row. - took 1 ms.
> [INFO] access.QueryLogger +++ transaction committed.
> [DEBUG] pages.Index Counter2 incremented to value 4
> [INFO] access.QueryLogger --- will run 1 query.
> [INFO] access.QueryLogger --- transaction started.
> [INFO] access.QueryLogger UPDATE Counter SET value = ? WHERE id = ?
> [INFO] access.QueryLogger [batch bind: 1->value:4, 2->id:240]
> [INFO] access.QueryLogger === updated 1 row.
> [INFO] access.QueryLogger +++ transaction committed.
> [INFO] access.QueryLogger --- will run 1 query.
> [INFO] access.QueryLogger --- transaction started.
> [INFO] access.QueryLogger UPDATE Counter SET value = ? WHERE id = ?
> [INFO] access.QueryLogger [batch bind: 1->value:4, 2->id:240]
> [INFO] access.QueryLogger === updated 1 row.
> [INFO] access.QueryLogger +++ transaction committed.
> ----------
>
> Even more surprisingly is that even with Level 1 - No Cache Sharing the same behavior applies.
>
> So do you guys feel this is normal behavior? How can I code this in a way that the second commitChanges would fail?
>
> Best regards,
> Paulo Andrade
>
> On Oct 28, 2010, at 11:50 AM, Paulo Andrade wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm new to Cayenne, and coming form EOF I'm find everything very easy to understand.
>>
>> Everything is so similar that I'm wondering that what I consider to be flaws in EOF also happen in Cayenne.
>>
>> For a long description of the problem here's a blog post:
>>
>> http://terminalapp.net/dr-optimistic-locking/
>>
>> The summary is this:
>>
>> EOF stores snapshots in the ObjectStoreCoordinator which are shared by EOEditingContexts (ObjectContexts in Cayenne), these snapshots are updated on fetches (queries in Cayenne) and saves (commits in Cayenne).
>>
>> So take an Cayenne application with a Level 2 cache (Local VM Caching), two ObjectStores (oc1 and oc2) and a Counter object with and intValue attribute marked for optimistic locking.
>>
>> What should happen in the following code:
>>
>> -------------
>> Counter oc1Counter, oc2Counter; // assume both exist and refer to the same entity in the DB, each in their own context
>>
>> int i = oc1Counter.intValue();
>> int j = oc2Counter.intValue();
>> // both i and j have a value of 3
>>
>> // now we increment oc1's counter
>> oc1Counter.setIntValue( i+1 ); // sets to 4
>>
>> oc1.commitChanges(); // saves oc1Counter with a value of 4 to disk and updates the snapshot
>>
>> // now increment oc2's counter
>> oc1Counter.setIntValue( j+1 ); // sets to 4 again
>>
>> oc2.commitChanges(); // **
>> ——————
>>
>> ** now what do you think should happen here?
>> In EOF the save succeeds and the previous change is overwritten without me knowing about it. Will Cayenne do the same?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Paulo Andrade
>>
>



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