[SLING-4307] Avoid caching JCR property values

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: JCR Resource 2.4.2
• Component/s: JCR
• Assignee: Carsten Ziegeler
• Reporter: Carsten Ziegeler
• Created: 14/Jan/15 09:41
• Updated: 23/Jan/15 17:00
• Resolved: 19/Jan/15 17:20

Description

The support for ValueMap is currently caching the JCR Value objects and also the JCR Property object.
If the value map object is held, this might prevent garbage collection within Oak as the value object holds a reference to the revision.

We should check whether caching is needed at all or if for example we could just cache the value itself but not the JCR Value object