blah .. @$* final methods. death to them. that's unfortunate. it can still be 
patched from the EC side, it's just a lot trickier to do. you don't need to 
file a bug report with apple ... unless it makes you feel good, or something.

On Mar 26, 2010, at 9:17 AM, Brook, James wrote:

> Thanks for the information. I haven't look into the mechanics of how this 
> works before, but I did peak into EOCustomObject's ___setRetainCount. 
> Unfortunately it's a final method.
> 
> I guess we can use some sort of home grown method based on something like 
> ERXRetainer, but it makes me feel pretty uncomfortable to be writing our own 
> code to work around a bug as fundamental as this. I would have guessed that 
> nested editing contexts are a widely used feature, so I am surprised I don't 
> here more about the issue. I guess I should file a bug report with Apple. A 
> Wonder workaround would be really nice though!
> 
> --
> James
> 
> On 25 Mar 2010, at 21:38, Mike Schrag wrote:
> 
>> I don't have a patch you can easily apply. The workaround on your side is to 
>> not let the EO in the parent EC garbage collect (basically, keep a reference 
>> to the parent EO around for any EO that you fault into child EC). There's 
>> not an easy recovery from this -- you have to toss your EC stack ... or .. 
>> maybe you could refetch the snapshot underneath it, but i think you're 
>> probably left with a __retainCount of -1 at that point, so probably even 
>> that won't help you.
>> 
>> I think this could be fixed pretty easily  in wonder by overriding 
>> ERXGenericRecord.__setRetainCount .. When count is set >0, call back to your 
>> EC and retain the object in a dict and when it drops to 0, release that ref.
>> 
>> On Mar 25, 2010, at 4:25 PM, Brook, James wrote:
>> 
>>> Mike,
>>> 
>>> That sounds all too familiar to me. We are experiencing errors just like 
>>> that. We have a feature that creates nested editing contexts several levels 
>>> deep and fetches EOs all the way down to the bottom. Do you know of a 
>>> workaround, patch or some way to recover from the bug you mention? I seem 
>>> to remember a similar bug years ago in the days when EOF kept strong 
>>> references. We are using Wonder.
>>> 
>>> Sorry for selfishly jumping in. Disappearing snapshots are causing us lots 
>>> of pain because whole instances of our application become useless.
>>> 
>>> --
>>> James
>>> ________________________________________
>>> From: [email protected] 
>>> [[email protected]] On Behalf 
>>> Of Mike Schrag [[email protected]]
>>> Sent: 25 March 2010 20:20
>>> To: Marc Guenther
>>> Cc: [email protected]
>>> Subject: Re: Snapshots mysteriously vanishing?
>>> 
>>>>> by any chance was this an EO in a parent editing context that also 
>>>>> existed in a child editingcontext?
>>>> 
>>>> I don't think so, but I'm not sure. That particular EO could have been in 
>>>> all differents ECs at the time, as it's entity is used all over the place.
>>>> 
>>>> Do you have anything specific in mind?
>>> yeah, there's a bug with refcounting of eo's in child ec's if the parent ec 
>>> copy of the EO gets garbage collected ... the result of this bug is 
>>> disappearing snapshots. this specifically applies to eo's fetched into a 
>>> child that were already fetched into the parent, though, not to peer ec's.
>>> 
>>> ms
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