Hi Craig,
did you get the mail to you personally where I described it? Maybe I
ended up in you spam-filter or something...
Regards,
Jörg
Craig L Russell schrieb:
> Hi
>
> Yes, I'm interested in this use-case in detail. I'm still open to an
> absolute fetch-depth if there is a need for it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Craig
>
> On Jan 16, 2006, at 8:13 AM, Jörg von Frantzius wrote:
>
>> Thank you Alexander, I hadn't been watching!
>>
>> Alexander Bieber schrieb:
>>> Thanks Craig for taking our arguments into account.
>>> I'll still have a comment concerning the use case Jörg von Frantzuis
>>> submitted. His case is to limit the object-plan depth to a certain
>>> level while using FetchPlan.ALL as fetch-group. This is used for
>>> synchronizing data between datastores generically. In my oppinion we
>>> should think of an additional and optional (defaulting to -1)
>>> parameter to detachCopy - detachDepth - for this case.
>> If fetch-depth is meant to limit recursion (or if it would more
>> accurately be renamed to "recursion-depth", see below), then there
>> would be no way anymore of determining the fetch-depth absolutely
>> when detaching. As Alexander said, my usecase depends on that and my
>> code would break. If anyone is interested to know why synchronizing
>> two different databases in a generic way depends on that, then I'll
>> be happy to elaborate further.
>>
>> I'd be equally happy with a fetchDepth parameter to PM.detachCopy(),
>> as Alexander proposes.
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>>
>>> Alexander Bieber
>>>
>>>
>>> Craig L Russell wrote:
>>>
>>>> Javadogs,
>>>>
>>>> I've spent some time looking at the semantics of fetch-depth and
>>>> now agree with the critics of the change that I proposed back in
>>>> the infamous October 1, 2005 message to the expert group subject:
>>>> *Re: JDO2 §12.7.2: fetch-depth only for "recursive fetch group
>>>> references"?*.
>>>>
>>>> I now believe it's impractical to use fetch-depth to mean the
>>>> maximum depth of the object graph reachable from the root object(s)
>>>> field because of several messages sent on the subject by Joerg von
>>>> Frantzuis, Alexander Bieber, and Marco Schultz.
>>>>
>>>> Briefly, the argument is that if fetch-depth limits the number
>>>> absolutely, then it's not possible easily to use the fetch-group to
>>>> add another field to a fetch plan simply by adding a fetch-group
>>>> that includes that field. Instead, a new fetch-group that changes
>>>> the fetch-depth must be used. And each new use-case needs to
>>>> provide a different fetch-depth number if another level of fetching
>>>> is desired.
>>>>
>>>> I believe that the use of fetch-group to determine whether fields
>>>> (navigating relationships) are fetched should be natural, and that
>>>> we should therefore use fetch-depth for its original purpose of
>>>> limiting recursion.
>> Two remarks if we want to limit recursion:
>>
>> 1. It shouldn't be called "fetch-depth" but "recursion-depth",
>> because that's what it is then (it does not determine the actual
>> number of fetches!)
>> 2. It should be clearly defined what kind of recursion is meant here,
>> i.e. by class or by object. I remember it being agreed that by
>> object is the most useful.
>>
>>>>
>>>> If you disagree with this position, please reply so we can move
>>>> forward and define the use of fetch-depth for recursion (as in the
>>>> original semantics of the attribute).
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Craig
>>>>
>>>> Craig Russell
>>>>
>>>> Architect, Sun Java Enterprise System http://java.sun.com/products/jdo
>>>>
>>>> 408 276-5638 mailto:Craig.Russell@sun.com
>>>>
>>>> P.S. A good JDO? O, Gasp!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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>
> Craig Russell
>
> Architect, Sun Java Enterprise System http://java.sun.com/products/jdo
>
> 408 276-5638 mailto:Craig.Russell@sun.com
>
> P.S. A good JDO? O, Gasp!
>
>
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