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Marcel Reutegger commented on JCR-1508:
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While constraints may be checked later (i.e. on save), the specification 
clearly says in setProperty(String name, Value value):

"If the property is multi-valued, a ValueFormatException is thrown."

This exception must be thrown immediately, it cannot be deferred to a later 
point in time when changes are passed to the SPI implementation.

> Setting a new property value causes a read of the previous property value
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JCR-1508
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR-1508
>             Project: Jackrabbit
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: jackrabbit-jcr2spi
>    Affects Versions: 1.4
>            Reporter: David Rauschenbach
>
> When using JCR2SPI with a custom SPI, getProperty is called when one attempts 
> to set a new property value with disregard to the previous value. The current 
> JCR2SPI implementation causes a getPropertyInfo, which requests the old value 
> from the back-end. This is fundamentally unsound, and kills performance.
> An SPI has no choice but to guard against this by returning a PropertyInfo 
> proxy that performs lazy-loading of the value. The problem is that if an 
> error occurs when dereferencing the value, and when performing the lazy-load, 
> JCR2SPI is ill-suited to hande an unchecked exception at such a time. 
> Besides, it is a "hack upon a hack", because JCR2SPI could do this work 
> itself, by making proper use of the SPI functions for requesting property 
> type information.

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