Hi devs, we have an important inconsistency that we ignored since a long time and that is producing http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-7628.
The main issue is that the storage save document containing object linked explicitly to another wiki without complaining which mean that user continue using API wrongly without really knowing it's wrong. And now we have lots of code badly using object class related API and contently creating object with absolute class references. Until now it was OK even if a mess and it's still not visible. But that's mostly luck... until we start copying documents from one wiki to another starting with 4.0 branch. What changed is that the unique identifier of the object in the database is "properly" generated by using it's reference and since a class reference in a BaseObject contain a wiki it's now taken into account. The old id generator used to use the deprecated BaseCollection#getClassName which is forced absolute for retro-compatibility reason even if it was actually possible before to put absolutely anything as class reference. So right now we have two issues: * store save invalid document without complaining * many code is wrongly using BaseObject and XWikiDocument API regarding class references mostly because you don't really see it right away when you don't use it properly. Even ObjectAddAction is wrong, a lot of code that was using setClassName has been badly converted to fix deprecated method code by resolving what was passed to setClassName into an absolute reference which is very wrong and not the behavior of setClassName. Here is what we propose with Denis: * 4.x (or until class coming from another wiki is supported but I doubt this is going to happen anytime soon with this storage): ** throw an exception in the storage when saving a document containing objects coming from another wiki ** to temporary limit breakage while we fix wrong code and help us find this wrong code, modify BaseCollection#setXClassReference to force it to remove the wiki from the passed reference and log a warning about a bad usage * 5.0: remove the bandage from BaseCollection#setXClassReference WDYT ? Here is my +1 -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
