[OPENJPA-1758] Allow instance to be distributed by its references' attributes

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: slice
• Assignee: Pinaki Poddar
• Reporter: Pinaki Poddar
• Created: 03/Aug/10 23:09
• Updated: 03/Feb/12 17:14

Description

The current distribution policy requires that target slice be determinable when the managed instance instance enters the persistence context. However, if the target slice for an instance X is determined by some attribute of Y which is referred by X – then at the time of invocation the target slice for X may not be determinable. This improvement will allow the policy to return null, so that the target slice can be determined when the instance is being flushed to the datastore.