Details
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Improvement
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Status: Closed
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Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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None
Description
Mail thread:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/sling-dev/201505.mbox/%3C555983F2.20402%40apache.org%3E
Starting mail
Right now, resources changes are propagated through event admin - which
at the time sounded like a good idea. Over time, this has shown to be a
bottle neck.
Basically there are at least three problems:
- the sender of the resource events does not know whether there is a
receiver, therefore events for each and every change need to be sent - event objects are immutable and therefore all relevant data needs to
be calculated upfront, even if it's not used. For example a resource
event contains the resource type which needs to be fetched from the
repository, even if no one is interested in it. - receivers of the events can't easily act on behalf of the user who
initiated the change.
I created a new listener api at [1] which defines a ResourceListener
interface and some ways how to specify the events one is interested in.
The user aware resource listener allows to act on behalf of the user (if
that information is available).
On the other side, a new service, the ObservationReporter [2] is
defined. Resource providers report changes through this interface. The
payload of such an event is an interface which allows for lazy retrieval
of the information.
We can also use this mechanism for compatibility and an implementation
of the observation reporter might sent all events via the event admin.
[1]
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/sling/whiteboard/cziegeler/api-v3/src/main/java/org/apache/sling/api/resource/observation/
[2]
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/sling/whiteboard/cziegeler
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Issue Links
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- Closed
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SLING-5994 Move from EventHandler to new ResourceChangeListener API
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- Resolved
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