Re: [hibernate-dev] Centralized access to "bootstrap only" resources

We have a number of resources whose references are valid only during bootstrap. This includes things like: - ClassmateContext - JPA temp ClassLoader - Scanner and related - HCANN ReflectionManager (eventually Jandex) - etc The problem is that as currently handled (via MetadataBuilder/MetadataBuildingOptions) these resources actually are available at runtime as well, since the MetadataBuildingOptions lives on as part of the SessionFactory. The idea of a "bootstrap only" ServiceRegistry has been discussed a few times as a way to solve this. That would work, except that it would potentially get confusing in regards to being sure we are passing the correct ServiceRegistry all the time IMO. Lately I started thinking of an alternative solution: splitting up MetadataBuildingOptions into 2 distinct contracts: one with the same idea/scope as now, and another whose lifecycle is scoped to the bootstrap process. I am tentatively calling this org.hibernate.boot.spi.BootstrapContext. For the most part these changes are isolated internally. Currently I have MetadataBuilderImpl building both the MetadataBuildingOptions and this new BootstrapContext. Some of the applyXYZ calls on MetadataBuilder are now directed to BootstrapContext instead of the MetadataBuildingOptions. MetadaBuildingContext was changed to add exposing the BootstrapContext in addition to the MetadataBuildingOptions. For the most part this works very well, and like I said is pretty well isolated internally. However, it does affect any existing usages of those methods removed from MetadataBuildingOptions. The biggest disconnect there so far is in JpaIntegrator which tries to access the HCANN ReflectionManager during its JpaIntegrator#integrate call to process entity callbacks/listeners. With JPA support being integrated into hibernate-core, we could probably work around that one by consuming that bit-of-logic into the transformation of InFlightMetadataCollector -> MetadataImpl. IMO this is a "win" anyway as it would allow users to leverage JPA entity callbacks/listeners in native Hibernate apps as well; so this change would not necessarily be a "bad thing". Another option would be to change the signature of Integrator#integrate. To be honest it was probably always a mistake to not use a "parameter object" to pass in to #integrate. This also has a tie-in with the 3-phases for TypeConfiguration discussed on HipChat. To recap, TypeConfiguration (see 6.0 type system design if unfamiliar with TypeConfiguration) has the following "phases": 1. TypeConfiguration initialization - this is initialization of the TypeConfiguration itself. During this phase no "context" is available to the TypeConfiguration. 2. Metadata building - essentially this is the time spent transitioning from MetadataSources to Metadata. 3. live SessionFactory - from the point we instantiate the SessionFactory. The first discussion here is exactly how to handle the period from the end of phase 2 to the beginning of phase 3. Ideally (from an OO encapsulation perspective) we'd end the second phase after we have built the MetadataImpl from the InFlight variety. However that leaves a "gap" in terms of the TypeConfiguration having any context. The other option is to carry the BootstrapContext along into the MetadataImpl, along into the SessionFactoryBuilder and to release the BootstrapContext and scope the TypeConfiguration to the SessionFactory only after the SF is built. So we'd still not carry that information in the SessionFactory, but we'd keep it around until the SessionFactory is built. Basically this allows types and descriptors access to the scoped context (MetadataBuildingContext here specifically) during that small gap of transitioning from Metadata -> SF. This is what I propose we do; just want to make sure no one has objections. A last part I want to consider is integrations with other Hibernate projects. Initially I spoke with Gunnar about this a lot in terms of OGM. I think it is important that we allow the same paradigm we do now for bootstrapping for the sake of continuity. However I do wonder if, in terms of integrations, it might also be beneficial to allow an alternate way to bootstrap as well. Gunnar, back when we developed this you had mentioned a central "bootstrap delegate builder" contract. That also could fit really nicely with these new changes. Is that something that would help OGM at this point? Or should we stick with what we have for the sake of continuity? Sorry this got so long, but there is a lot of discuss here :) _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev