I can reproduce on 3.4RC1. I also think this is a bug. Can you report it? if it hasn't been reported already.
Thanks, Marius On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Edo Beutler <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi devs > > Today we stumbled across, what we think, is a bug. All (at least > almost all) the creation dates are wrong. They are set to the first > occurrence of getDocument() for a specific document and not on first > save(). Usually the difference ist only small (minutes), but there are > cases where the difference are several days. > We suppose that calling getDocument('Test.NotExistingDoc') creates the > document and puts it into the cache with a current timestamp in > creation date. Let's say you work now for an hour before you save the > document, then the creation date would be an hour old even though the > document has just been created. > We always expected the creation date to be the moment of the first > save. Thus we think it's a bug. We came across the problem because we > had someone complaining that a document he created on the 19th was > listed under the ones from the 17th. This could even happen across > users if e.g. there is a link to a not yet existing page. User A > clicks on the link, realizes there is nothing on the page and leaves. > Hours later user B goes to the page and adds content. Now the creation > date of the page would be at an inexplicable time for user B since he > never touched the document until hours after the shown creation date. > > We work on 2.7.2 at the moment, but judging by the source code we > think it should be the same in the current version. > To reproduce it create the following script: > #set($newDoc = $xwiki.getDocument('Test.NotExistingDoc')) > $newDoc.getCreationDate() > If you reload several times you see, that the creation date does not > change, even though the document has never been saved. Add a save to > the script: > $newDoc.save() > Now you have a document where creation date and save date of the > version 1.1 do not match. > > Should I create a JIRA issue for that? Maybe we could even send you a > git pull request, but you would have to tell us where you want it to > be fixed: > 1. In save action. There the creator of the document gets set already. > 2. In the store action. We think it would belong there, but are not > sure if this would break something e.g. import or copy > 3. Somewhere else > > Regards, > Edo > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
