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Pinaki Poddar updated OPENJPA-151:
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    Attachment: PCEnhancer.AddVersion.Diff.txt

Added a public int getEnhancementContractVersion() to all enhanced classes. 
Please review these baby steps into bytecode manipulation.

The diff also contains removal of pcFlags related changes.
It does not include the change in PersistenceCapable interface.


1. Should the method be static?
2. The ENHANCER_VERSION is public static final in PCEnhncer. So the user can:

     PersistenceCapable pc = ...
    if (pc.getEnhancementContractVersion() < PCEnhancer.ENHANCER_VERSION)
          // warn or throw exception       

3. What is a good central location to add the above check? 

> Added field in enhanced vesrion of a class is not serialized. Hence the 
> change in detached+serialized instances is not registered under certain 
> conditions.  
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>
>                 Key: OPENJPA-151
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENJPA-151
>             Project: OpenJPA
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: kernel
>            Reporter: Pinaki Poddar
>         Assigned To: Pinaki Poddar
>         Attachments: diff.txt, PCEnhancer.AddVersion.Diff.txt
>
>
> Enhancement adds a transient byte member field pcFlags to the class. This 
> field is originally used to optimize field access/mutation i.e. to 
> short-circuit mediation via StateManager under certain conditions (e.g. when 
> the field is part of the default fetch group). The field is transient, 
> perhaps, to maintain serialization compatibility. However, later changes such 
> as DetachedStateManager and improved attach strategies have made the usage of 
> these flag redundant. 
> This issue is a proposal to remove this field from the enhanced classes. The 
> proposed change is initiated by the following observation:
> 1. class A has one-to-one relation to class B
> 2. an instance a of A is related to b1 of B. b2 is another instance of B.
> 3. a, b1, b2 are detached, serialized, transported over the wire, desrialized 
> in a remote process as a*, b1* and b2*.
> 4. in the remote process a* is associated with b2*
> 5. a* is merged to the original process.
> The change is not persisted when OpenJPA kernel is used with a JDO facade. It 
> works with JPA facade. 
> The initial analysis shows that the reason can be attributed to pcFlags and 
> the optimization in enhanced classes based on to its value. Because pcFlags 
> is not 
> serialized, in a* instance pcFlags has a value of 0. Hence, the mutation of 
> a*'s relation to b2* from b1* is not mediated via the StateManager (yes, the 
> detached version was carrying its own StateManager). While merging the 
> instance a* back, it was adjudged clean while actually it was dirty. In JPA 
> facade, the enhancement process did not add the extra optimization for setter 
> and so the cloned owner instance was righly marked dirty.  
> Please note that if this proposal is accepted by the community, it will 
> require reenhancement of existing domain classes. The change will impact the 
> internal StateManager and PersistenceCapable API (essentally removal of 
> certain methods than any other behavioural change). 
>    

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