Re: [infinispan-dev] Questions on AtomicMap and improvement proposals

On 18 mai 2011, at 12:23, Manik Surtani wrote: > > On 30 Apr 2011, at 20:14, Emmanuel Bernard wrote: > >> Another behavior I'm seeing that is surprising me is: >> >> tx.begin(); >> Map<?,?> map = AtomicMapLookup.getAtomicMap(cache, key); >> assert map.size() == 3; >> AtomicMapLookup.removeAtomicMap(cache, key); >> assert map.size() == 0; >> tx.commit(); >> >> I can sort understand in a twisted way that removeAtomicMap clears the underlying map but that's for sure surprising and can lead to weird bugs for ATM users. Is that necessary? > > This is weird, from a usage perspective, agreed. > > Realistically, any operations that happen on an atomic map handle after the atomic map has been removed should result in an exception. I can't think of any existing JDK exceptions being valid - perhaps InvalidAtomicMapException? > > @Emmanuel, WDYT? IllegalStateException works, I'd say