localObject vs prefetches: would there be a benefit ?

[Marcin Skladaniec]

Hi






The test I have looks like this:

CayenneContext context1;
CayenneContext context2;

SelectQuery q = new SelectQuery(Painting.class);
q.addPrefetch(Painting.GALLERY_PROPERTY);
q.addPrefetch(Painting. GALLERY_PROPERTY + "." + Gallery.CITY_PROPERTY);
List l = context1.performQuery(q);
//now the context1 contain all the records I wanted it to contain

Painting p1 = (Painting) l.get(0);
Painting p2 = (Painting) context2.localObject(p1.getObjectId(), null);

//now the context2 contain only the single record I copied
p2.getGallery().getCity();
//now  context2 contains the same objects as context1







Marcin

We are improving the performance of our client application (ROP). Not surprisingly we have found that adding prefetches did improve the speed significantly. I have a question though about which is about efficiency of localObject. We are fetching a list of objects (query with prefetches) to a specific one non-editable context. If the object is to be edited it has to be copied to another context which allows committing changes. After the object is copied all the related object are accessed, so the performance of the copying came to my mind. All is very quick, but my question is how it will scale when the relationship would be to-many and there will be hundreds related records. What do you think would be a threshold number of related objects which have to be localised over which it would be worth doing a new, specific select query for that single object (with prefetches). Would there be advantage of doing that at all ? We are using cutting edge version of cayenne (I think we use build about 2-3 weeks old).

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