[infinispan-dev] Time for a tryLock() ?

[Thomas Fromm]

On 27.04.2012 11:05, Dan Berindei wrote:
>
> I wasn't thinking of a flag, I was thinking of a withTimeout(timeout)
> method on AdvancedCache. There may be other "flags" that could be
> customized with a value as well, but then you'd need to keep them in a
> map and it could be more trouble than it's worth.
>
> The complication with withTimeout/tryLock OTOH is that as a user I'd
> expect it to limit everything, not just the lock acquisition - so it
> would have to override sync.replTimeout as well.

Where is the JIRA to vote for? :)

The javadoc for lock says:"false will only be returned if the lock 
acquisition timed out and the operation has been called with 
|Flag.FAIL_SILENTLY| 
<http://docs.jboss.org/infinispan/5.1/apidocs/org/infinispan/context/Flag.html#FAIL_SILENTLY>.".
As user I'd assume that when using the mentioned flag and independend 
what errors happen, the lock will _only_ return false in case of an timeout.

Is the discussed "tryLock" in the end the expected behaviour for lock 
with FAIL_SILENTLY regarding the javadoc?

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