[JCR-1624] Proxies improvement

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.5
• Fix Version/s: 1.5
• Component/s: jackrabbit-ocm
• Environment: Mac OS X, Java 5
• Assignee: Christophe Lombart
• Reporter: Stephane Landelle
• Created: 23/May/08 12:45
• Updated: 08/Dec/08 11:08
• Resolved: 28/May/08 19:05

Description

1) Improvement :
I need to be able to detect when a bean is an OCM proxy and if it has already been loaded. This kind of functionnality is for example on Hibernate with Hibernate.isInitialized(Object proxy).
I have developped something similar : I have modified ProxyManagerImpl so it uses an InvocationHandler instead of a LazyLoader. This way, I make my proxies implement a special interface whose methods are intercepted.

2) Bug :
If a BeanConverter is specified, ObjectConverterImpl should pass it to the proxy CallBack instead letting BeanLazyLoader use the default ObjectConverter. I think this is a bug, as the behavior is different is bean property is proxified or not.

3) Improvement :
If a jcrType mapped on a java type is specified, ObjectConverterImpl should make a proxy of this type, and not use the the bean property type. This is particularly useful when the bean property type is an interface.

Sorry for reporting this as a bundle instead of seperate items, but I developped my patch as a whole.
Let me know if you need help on the enclosing patch.

Sincerely,

Stéphane Landelle