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Andi Huber updated ISIS-1807:
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    Issue Type: Wish  (was: Improvement)

> Wrap Domain Entities by default
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>
>                 Key: ISIS-1807
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ISIS-1807
>             Project: Isis
>          Issue Type: Wish
>          Components: Isis Core
>    Affects Versions: 1.15.1
>            Reporter: Óscar Bou
>            Priority: Major
>
> Maybe this should be controlled by a new nature on domain services?  Whether 
> to wrap should be "inherited", ie if invoke a wrapped domain service then any 
> entities returned would also be wrapped.
> ~~~~~~
>  
> This way, all hide/disable/validate constraints, and other 
> constraints/invariants forced through actions, are always ensured by default.
> This will require to wrap by default:
>  * New Domain Entity instances / objects (ie, changes on FactoryService).
>  * Domain Entities returned by queries (ie, changes on RepositoryService).
> Users might disable this new default behaviour through configuration, as some 
> projects can prioritize performance (avoiding wrapping invocations) vs Domain 
> constraints/invariants enforcement.
> ~~~~
>  Dan's notes:
> I'd like to refine the concept of wrapping while implementing this ticket.
> The idea of wrapping was originally to allow the UI to be simulated within 
> integration tests. The intent of this ticket is to formalize the idea of the 
> same set of validations being done automatically between programmatic 
> interactions from one service/entity to another service/entity.
> So, the more general concept (common to both UI/domain interactions and 
> domain-to-domain programmatic interactions) is one of _trust boundaries_. If 
> there is no trust from the calling client to the supplying service/entity, 
> then that interaction should be wrapped.
> However, the wrapping model as it currently stands is a little bit too 
> UI/domain oriented, in that it has both hidden AND disabled as well as 
> validate phases. From the perspective of a programmatic domain-to-domain 
> interaction there's no meaningful distinction between the hidden and disabled 
> constraints: they both mean: "that object isn't in a state to be called". In 
> other words its a pre constraint that is not satisfied.
> The other aspect here is that I can imagine that there are actions that we 
> would like to allow to be made programmatically (ie through a wrapper) but 
> which shouldn't be part of the UI. In other words these actions form part of 
> the programmatic API of a module, just not part of its UI.
> Putting all this together, I propose that we slightly change the meaning of 
> wrapping (though we'll keep the current implementation too for backwards 
> compatibility), namely that by default wrapped object will check the disable 
> and validate phases only, ie it will _not_ check the hidden phase. This 
> allows such actions to be indicated as hidden (probably using @ActionLayout 
> or .layout.xml or security) but still able to be called programmatically. The 
> disable phase = pre check.
> We could define the following terminology:
>  - "default" wrapping : as described above, checks only disable and validate, 
> not hidden
>  - "strict" wrapping - for backward compatibility, also checks hidden first
> We could define a configuration property:
> isis.runtime.wrapping=default | strict | none
> with "default" wrapping being the default if not specified.
> In terms of the programming API, the WrapperFactory#wrap(...) will obviously 
> be less important than it was, because by default objects will be wrapped. 
> For backward compatibilty, I think this should continue to create strict 
> wrappers
> The wrap(...) method is also overloaded, with wrap(ExecutionMode). We can 
> extend this enum:
>  - EXECUTE - (existing) returns a strict wrapper
>  - SKIP_RULES - (existing) skips applying the hidden/disable/validate rules
>  - NO_EXECUTE - (existing) applies hidden/disabled/validate, but does not 
> execute
>  - DEFAULT - (new) returns a "default" wrapper, applies only disable/validate 
> but not hidden
> (new:) if the object passed in is already wrapped, then it should be replaced 
> with a wrapper with the specified mode. Prevoiusly this was a no-op, I think.
> The unwrap(...) method is unchanged.



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