I couldn't find something on JIRA, so I crated XWIKI-7427

Regards,
Edo

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Marius Dumitru Florea
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
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