Hi Francesco,

> Gesendet: Montag, 29. September 2014 um 12:12 Uhr
> Von: "Francesco Chicchiriccò" <[email protected]>
> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: Re: check for id!=0 in UserController?
>
> On 29/09/2014 12:08, Guido Wimmel wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > we observed that when UserController.resolveReferences() is called before 
> > the creation of a User via UserController.create(),
> > Syncope tries to read the user with id==0 (via binder.getUserTO()). This 
> > always fails (which is ignored), but may cause an unnecessary query to the 
> > database and the creation of a transaction that must be rolled back because 
> > of a NotFoundException thrown by UserDataBinder.
> >
> > This also would make it difficult to make functionality in UserController 
> > which creates users transactional.
> >
> > Would it be a useful optimization to check for id!=0 in 
> > UserController.resolveReferences()? (and similar in other controllers?)
> 
> Sure: I don't see any problems with this and I also believe that current 
> integration tests are strong enough to raise problems, in case.

Ok, I can make the corresponding changes. Should I open a JIRA issue?
Should we apply this only to 1_2_X and trunk, or also to 1_1_X?

> > Is there a specific reason why create() is not marked transactional 
> > currently, but some other methods in UserController are?
> 
> It is, indeed: the create() (and others) method are *not* marked as 
> transactional because the invocations made inside create()'s body 
> constitute separate transactions: create into the internal storage via 
> workflow, propagation, notification, and so on.

Ok. I wondered because status() does similar things (updating via workflow, 
propagation, notification) and is marked as transactional.

Cheers,
  Guido

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