I did not open one, no.  It was not clear to me that it was a defeat,
rather than something by design that was just not optimal for what I need.

Thanks.

Mike



On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 6:28 AM, Claude Warren <[email protected]> wrote:

> Is there a defect open for this?  If so I will work on it this week.  If
> not I'll open one.  I did a quick look and could not find it.
>
> Claude
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Mike Grove <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 4:46 AM, Claude Warren <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > @Before and @After might be usable, but @BeforeClass and @AfterClass
> will
> > > not as the model is not available until the class is constructed.
> > >
> > > I was leaning towards solution #4 myself.
> > >
> >
> > This would be my preference as well, I think then overriding the tests in
> > the same manner as Claude has done will just work.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
> > > Anybody else care to weigh in?
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Andy Seaborne <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On 01/08/13 22:18, Claude Warren wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Mike poses an interesting question.
> > > >>
> > > >> Should we add transaction boundaries to all the tests?  I think
> there
> > > are
> > > >> 3
> > > >> choices:
> > > >> 1) do not add transactions and developers like Mike will have
> problems
> > > >> with
> > > >> environments that require transactions.
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > > Can't @Before and @After (@BeforeClass, @AfterClass) be used by an
> > > > inheriting class?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >  2) add a switch that allows transactions to be enabled for the test
> > and
> > > >> have the TestingModelFactory specify if it is on or off.
> > > >> 3) turn on transactions in the tests by default.  The assumption
> here
> > is
> > > >> that all Model implementations will support the transaction calls.
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > > But they don't!
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >  4) use the Model.supportsTransactions() method to determine if the
> > > >> transaction should be used within the test.
> > > >>
> > > >> I would lean toward 3 or 4.
> > > >>
> > > >> Claude
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > > Transactions are on datasets.  Models are either free standing or a
> > view
> > > > of a dataset.  They will have different characteristics.
> > > >
> > > > Fuseki adds a parallel "Transactional" object for in-memory data that
> > > > provides MRSW concurrency.  That can be added to in-memory datasets
> by
> > > > default if there is any demand for it.
> > > >
> > > > [ Aside:
> > > > The Model interface has the begin() style transactions, which lead to
> > > > issues of lock promotion, which in turn result in the possibility of
> > the
> > > > system having to abort transactions because of lock
> incompatibilities.
> > > > That's why datasets provide begin(read/write) -- no lock promotion
> > > issues,
> > > > true parallel multiple-reader-single-writer, and fully serializable
> > > > transactions.
> > > > ]
> > > >
> > > > I wonder if there is a "Jena3" thing here to go back and review the
> > > > transaction contract and get the API sorted out if necessary.  I'm
> not
> > > sure
> > > > applications working on models from datasets get the best contract
> > > > currently.
> > > >
> > > >         Andy
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
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