>From the user point of view I think this makes sense and it'd be worth the effort, also it looks like the global space approach would allow to do that without loosing too much in terms of performance.
My 2 cents, Tommaso 2013/10/17 Michael Dürig <mdue...@apache.org> > > Hi, > > Currently we can't detect a move operation through diffing node states. > Those operation are currently seen as separate remove and add operations > that can't be easily associated with each other. This impacts permission > evaluation (OAK-710, OAK-783) and observation (OAK-144, OAK-1090), which > both don't have the same support for moves as had Jackrabbit 2. > > As discussed several times before it is not possible to regain move > operation from simply diffing node states. We need additional information. > One option is to annotate nodes (*) as they are moved with their source > path. With that we could detect whether an added node was the target of a > move operation and if so where the source of that operation was. However, > this comes with a performance penalty since such a diff operation could not > be done in a single pass any more. In order to decide whether a deleted > node has been moved, the corresponding add needs to be found first. In > essence this requires the diff operation to do two passes: the first one > for detecting move operations and the second one for the other operations. > > To avoid the second pass, we could also remember the paths of the moved > nodes in a global place (*). This would allow us to look up whether a > deleted node was moved (opposed to deleted) as we go and detect moved nodes > as soon as we come across an added node that has a source path annotation. > As an added benefit this approach allows us to detect whether there was a > move at all simply by checking whether there are entries in this global > place. If this is not the case, we could fall back to a simpler diff > mechanism. > > (*) All such annotations would happen as hidden items in transient space > and would have to be removed again by some hook before persisting. > > WDYT, is this worth the trouble? > > Michael >
