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Jukka Zitting commented on OAK-775:
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bq. What is not clear to me is how we stop the internal events from reappearing 
as external events.

Here's a rough draft of what I had in mind for {{NodeStoreBranch.merge()}}:

{code:java}
NodeState root = store.getRoot()
branch.rebase(root);
observer.beforeCommit(root);
try {
    NodeState head = branch.getHead();
    branch.merge();
    observer.localCommit(head);
} finally {
    observer.afterCommit(store.getRoot());
}
{code}

The observer could look something like this:

{code:java}
class Observer implements Runnable {

    private NodeState lastRoot = store.getRoot();

    private boolean inLocalCommit = false;

    public synchronized void beforeCommit(NodeState root) {
        inLocalCommit = true;
        externalUpdate(lastRoot, root);
        lastRoot = root;
    }

    public synchronized void localCommit(NodeState root) {
        localUpdate(lastRoot, root, getUserData());
        lastRoot = root;
    }

    public synchronized void afterCommit(NodeState root) {
        externalUpdate(lastRoot, root);
        lastRoot = root;
        inLocalCommit = false;
    }

    // called periodically, for example using scheduleWithFixedDelay()
    public synchronized void run() {
        if (!inLocalCommit) {
            NodeState root = store.getRoot();
            externalUpdate(lastRoot, root);
            lastRoot = root;
        }
    }

}
{code}

That should allow us to deliver both local and external events as a single, 
interleaved sequence.
                
> Implement backward compatible observation
> -----------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: OAK-775
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OAK-775
>             Project: Jackrabbit Oak
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>          Components: core, jcr
>            Reporter: Michael Dürig
>            Assignee: Michael Dürig
>         Attachments: OAK-775-isExternal.patch, OAK-775.patch
>
>
> As [discussed | http://markmail.org/message/6bqycmx6vbq7m25c] we might want 
> look into implementing an alternative approach to observation, which trades 
> some scalability for improved backward compatibility. 

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