9:38 a.m.
That's a very good catch! You're right.
Tracking this back, I think I understand why and how it works the way it does now.
That JBoss issue was a known problem before a rework of session replication - after that
it was no longer an issue and that, I suppose,
was the reason why we still had WELD-1130 open and unsolved. I guess we didn't hear
any complaints from other EE servers until you came
and implemented WELD-1130 using the added config option
'RESET_HTTP_SESSION_ATTR_ON_BEAN_ACCESS'.
In the light of that I think the correct way to solve this would be a PR just like
Benjamin sent initially - https://github.com/weld/core/pull/1983/files
Implement aggressive re-storing of conversation map in the session but gate it behind the
aforementioned configuration property (so that default Weld behaviour stays intact).
I've already created a WELD issue for it - https://issues.redhat.com/browse/WELD-2626
Feel free to send PRs.
Regards
Matej
----- Original Message -----
From: "Allan Zhang" <zhang(a)ca.ibm.com>
To: "Matej Novotny" <manovotn(a)redhat.com>
Cc: "Benjamin Confino" <BENJAMIC(a)uk.ibm.com>, "Shinji Ohtsuka"
<EB92769(a)jp.ibm.com>, "Emily Jiang"
<EMIJIANG(a)uk.ibm.com>, weld-dev(a)lists.jboss.org
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2020 6:26:34 PM
Subject: RE: [weld-dev] Propagation of
org.jboss.weld.context.ConversationContext.conversations through session
failover
I thought this was an old bug that resolved already
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/WELD-1130
Similarly It was documented under know issue of JBPAPP6-1326 - CDI beans
with SET replication trigger are not replicating
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/jboss_enterprise_applicatio...
@Benjamin Can the customer use SET_AND_NON_PRIMITIVE_GET setting?
Thanks,
Allan Zhang
From: Matej Novotny <manovotn(a)redhat.com>
To: Benjamin Confino <BENJAMIC(a)uk.ibm.com>
Cc: Shinji Ohtsuka <EB92769(a)jp.ibm.com>, Emily Jiang
<EMIJIANG(a)uk.ibm.com>, weld-dev(a)lists.jboss.org, Allan Zhang
<zhang(a)ca.ibm.com>
Date: 2020-05-12 09:10 AM
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [weld-dev] Propagation of
org.jboss.weld.context.ConversationContext.conversations
through session failover
@Allan
I read part 7.7.2 of the spec and I see no indications of such requirement
there.
FYI, you are probably not subscribed to weld-dev list and your emails are
not getting through (but I am getting them as I am in the CC) -
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@Benjamin
> I'm investigating what can be done on our end, but since it is a
> grey area shouldn't weld err on the side of following Oracle's advice? Or
> at least include a setting to switch to following the advice?
As for Weld, the conversation map is not the only thing we store in
session.
For instance, whole session context is stored there (every single bean).
Even conversation context might be stored there and maybe something else
but from the top of my head, these are quite prominent.
And we also do not call setAttribute() every single time a bean changes or
is accessed. That would be massive perf overhead.
What I mean is that the issue you are seeing is a tip of an iceberg - it
looks easy to fix for this one scenario/case, but it wouldn't be a complete
change as multiple other things function the same way and it would require
bigger code changes that I don't think are worth it.
What you are asking for is, simply said, an unsupported replication mode.
Unless you can change the way Liberty treats mutable attributes in session,
your customer should probably swap to a mode where all attributes are
stored/replicated on shutdown.
Matej
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Benjamin Confino" <BENJAMIC(a)uk.ibm.com>
> To: "Matej Novotny" <manovotn(a)redhat.com>
> Cc: "Shinji Ohtsuka" <EB92769(a)jp.ibm.com>, "Emily Jiang"
<EMIJIANG(a)uk.ibm.com>, weld-dev(a)lists.jboss.org, "Allan
> Zhang" <zhang(a)ca.ibm.com>
> Sent: Monday, May 11, 2020 11:02:04 PM
> Subject: RE: [weld-dev] Propagation of
org.jboss.weld.context.ConversationContext.conversations through session
> failover
>
> Hello
>
> I spoke to Allan and he agrees with you that it is a grey area in the
> spec. I'm investigating what can be done on our end, but since it is a
> grey area shouldn't weld err on the side of following Oracle's advice? Or
> at least include a setting to switch to following the advice? Especially
> since it would be technically simple to do so; as the map is only
modified
> in one class and Allan says it would be a good performance improvement.
>
> Regards
> Benjamin
>
>
>
> From: Matej Novotny <manovotn(a)redhat.com>
> To: Benjamin Confino <BENJAMIC(a)uk.ibm.com>
> Cc: Allan Zhang <zhang(a)ca.ibm.com>, Shinji Ohtsuka
> <EB92769(a)jp.ibm.com>, Emily Jiang <EMIJIANG(a)uk.ibm.com>,
> weld-dev(a)lists.jboss.org
> Date: 11/05/2020 09:33
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [weld-dev] Propagation of
> org.jboss.weld.context.ConversationContext.conversations through session
> failover
>
>
>
> The document you linked is not a specification itself and as such is not
> binding. Do you have an actual specification bits that prove this?
>
> I went looking into servlet specification[1] and asked someone from WFLY
> who has more expertise in this field to also take a look.
> None of us found anything stating that you are required to call
> setAttribute() every time you change mutable attribute.
> In fact there is very little about attributes (or "replication triggers"
> for attributes) and you could say this is grey area.
>
> To me it still makes way more sense to distinguish between
> mutable/immutable attributes and for mutable ones you should set "dirty"
> state even on read, not just write.
>
> Matej
>
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>
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Benjamin Confino" <BENJAMIC(a)uk.ibm.com>
> > To: "Allan Zhang" <zhang(a)ca.ibm.com>
> > Cc: "Matej Novotny" <manovotn(a)redhat.com>, "Shinji
Ohtsuka"
> <EB92769(a)jp.ibm.com>, "Emily Jiang"
> > <EMIJIANG(a)uk.ibm.com>, weld-dev(a)lists.jboss.org
> > Sent: Thursday, May 7, 2020 12:41:01 PM
> > Subject: RE: [weld-dev] Propagation of
> org.jboss.weld.context.ConversationContext.conversations through session
> > failover
> >
> > Hello
> >
> > Based on Allan Zhang's comments I have closed my pull requests and
> opened
> > this one
>
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_weld_core...
> which is a better match
> > for the recommendations in the sessionmanagement spec. I still have not
> > heard back from my customer so I will compile an updated test fix and
> > chase them up. If they approve, or if they do not reply soon I will
> create
> > pull requests for the other branches.
> >
> > Regards
> > Benjamin
> >
> >
> >
> > From: Allan Zhang/Toronto/IBM
> > To: Matej Novotny <manovotn(a)redhat.com>
> > Cc: Benjamin Confino <BENJAMIC(a)uk.ibm.com>, Shinji Ohtsuka
> > <EB92769(a)jp.ibm.com>, Emily Jiang <EMIJIANG(a)uk.ibm.com>,
> > weld-dev(a)lists.jboss.org
> > Date: 06/05/2020 17:42
> > Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [weld-dev] Propagation of
> > org.jboss.weld.context.ConversationContext.conversations through
session
> > failover
> >
> >
> >
> > >Shouldn't Liberty consider (at least after restart) any access to a
> > collection-based session property as an action marking that property
> > "dirty"?
> >
> > Liberty already has write option of ALL_SESSION_ATTRIBUTES to mark the
> > property "dirty" but customer wont use it for performance reasons.
> >
> > The PR fix is following the JEE spec where property "dirty" require
> > setAttribute() call.
> >
>
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.oracle.com_cd_E...
>
> >
> > As a general rule, all session attributes should be treated as
immutable
> > objects if possible. This ensures that developers are consciously aware
> > when they change attributes. With mutable objects, modifying attributes
> > often requires two steps: modifying the state of the attribute object,
> and
> > then manually updating the session with the modified attribute object
by
> > calling javax.servlet.http.HttpSession.setAttribute(). This means that
> > your application should always call setAttribute() if the attribute
> value
> > has been changed, otherwise, the modified attribute value will not
> > replicate to the backup server.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Allan Zhang
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > From: Matej Novotny <manovotn(a)redhat.com>
> > To: Benjamin Confino <BENJAMIC(a)uk.ibm.com>
> > Cc: Shinji Ohtsuka <EB92769(a)jp.ibm.com>, Emily Jiang
> > <EMIJIANG(a)uk.ibm.com>, weld-dev(a)lists.jboss.org, Allan Zhang
> > <zhang(a)ca.ibm.com>
> > Date: 2020-05-06 07:52 AM
> > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [weld-dev] Propagation of
> > org.jboss.weld.context.ConversationContext.conversations through
session
> > failover
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > thanks for explanation, I understand the flow now.
> >
> > However, your suggested PR still looks like a workaround more than a
fix
> > to me.
> >
> > I doubt Weld is the only case where this will emerge. You can easily
> store
> > any collection in session and expect it to behave like we do.
> > So in the very least, anything of type java.util.Collection that is
> stored
> > in session is susceptible to this behaviour.
> > Shouldn't Liberty consider (at least after restart) any access to a
> > collection-based session property as an action marking that property
> > "dirty"?
> >
> > Regards
> > Matej
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Benjamin Confino" <BENJAMIC(a)uk.ibm.com>
> > > To: "Matej Novotny" <manovotn(a)redhat.com>
> > > Cc: "Shinji Ohtsuka" <EB92769(a)jp.ibm.com>, "Emily
Jiang"
> > <EMIJIANG(a)uk.ibm.com>, weld-dev(a)lists.jboss.org, "Allan
> > > Zhang" <zhang(a)ca.ibm.com>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2020 3:59:30 PM
> > > Subject: RE: [weld-dev] Propagation of
> > org.jboss.weld.context.ConversationContext.conversations through
session
> > > failover
> > >
> > > Hello Matej
> > >
> > > No worries about the delay, my customer has not responded so you are
> > ahead
> > > of schedule. You are correct, the purpose of this PR is to trigger
the
> > > "dirty" state in liberty's session storage. Let me try and
describe
> the
> > > flow again and hopefully it will be clearer:
> > >
> > >
> > > A1) The application is started for the first time. A conversation map
> is
> > > created and stored into the session context. This marks it as dirty.
> > > A2) The application puts stuff into the map. Lets say this leaves the
> > map
> > > in State A
> > > A3) The server is told to shut down.
> > > A4) Liberty sees the map is dirty and saves map State A to persistent
> > > storage.
> > >
> > > B1) The server starts again.
> > > B2) Weld retrieves the conversation map (State A) from persistent
> > storage.
> > > Since it already has a map it does not put anything into session
> > storage.
> > > Thus the map is clean.
> > > B3) The application does more stuff, moving the map to (State B).
> > > B3) The server is told to shut down.
> > > B4) Liberty sees the map is clean, it doesn't transfer anything to
> > > persistent storage.
> > >
> > > C1) The server starts again.
> > > C2) Weld retrieves the conversation map (State A). This is the wrong
> > > state.
> > >
> > >
> > > My PR changes B2 so that Weld will set the same map back into session
> > > storage. Then in B4 liberty will see the map is dirty and save State
B
> > to
> > > storage, ensuring the correct state is retrieved at C2.
> > >
> > > We do have alternative solutions, for example you can configure
> Liberty
> > to
> > > store everything regardless of whether it is dirty or not. However
> this
> > > has performance implications and so my customer does not want to use
> > that
> > > option.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > Benjamin
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > From: Matej Novotny <manovotn(a)redhat.com>
> > > To: Benjamin Confino <BENJAMIC(a)uk.ibm.com>
> > > Cc: weld-dev(a)lists.jboss.org, Allan Zhang <zhang(a)ca.ibm.com>,
> Shinji
> > > Ohtsuka <EB92769(a)jp.ibm.com>, Emily Jiang
<EMIJIANG(a)uk.ibm.com>
> > > Date: 05/05/2020 12:17
> > > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [weld-dev] Propagation of
> > > org.jboss.weld.context.ConversationContext.conversations through
> session
> > > failover
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I finally found some time to look into this, it took longer than I
> > > anticipated, sorry for that.
> > >
> > > Firstly, I am not quite following the flow of the reproducer you
> > > described.
> > > Weld creates the conversation map and stores in into the session on
> > > creation. We then retrieve this map from session whenever needed and
> > store
> > > additional things into it.
> > > All the while we use the same map (the same reference, or object if
> you
> > > will)....so Liberty should see the same state in it, right? Or am I
> > > missing something obvious?
> > >
> > > I am not familiar with how Liberty deals with server shutdown and how
> it
> > > stores session attributes, but i would expect that if you just grab
> the
> > > existing map from there, it will be up to date.
> > > The PRs you sent seem superfluous to me - you are overriding the
> > attribute
> > > with exactly the same thing. probably just to trigger "dirty"
state
in
> > > your session storage?
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > Matej
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Benjamin Confino" <BENJAMIC(a)uk.ibm.com>
> > > > To: "Matej Novotny" <manovotn(a)redhat.com>
> > > > Cc: weld-dev(a)lists.jboss.org, "Allan Zhang"
<zhang(a)ca.ibm.com>,
> > "Shinji
> > > Ohtsuka" <EB92769(a)jp.ibm.com>, "Emily Jiang"
> > > > <EMIJIANG(a)uk.ibm.com>
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2020 11:56:43 AM
> > > > Subject: RE: [weld-dev] Propagation of
> > > org.jboss.weld.context.ConversationContext.conversations through
> session
> > > > failover
> > > >
> > > > Thank you for the heads up. When it's time to think about
delivery
> > I'll
> > > be
> > > > sure to create a PR against 3.1 and I presume you'd like me to
leave
> > > > master alone for now?
> > > >
> > > > Regards
> > > > Benjamin
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > From: Matej Novotny <manovotn(a)redhat.com>
> > > > To: Benjamin Confino <BENJAMIC(a)uk.ibm.com>
> > > > Cc: weld-dev(a)lists.jboss.org, Allan Zhang
<zhang(a)ca.ibm.com>,
> > Shinji
> > > > Ohtsuka <EB92769(a)jp.ibm.com>, Emily Jiang
<EMIJIANG(a)uk.ibm.com>
> > > > Date: 29/04/2020 09:51
> > > > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [weld-dev] Propagation of
> > > > org.jboss.weld.context.ConversationContext.conversations through
> > session
> > > > failover
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I'll take a look later today.
> > > > Note that master branch is no longer Weld 3.x, it is 4.x (Jakarta
EE
> > 9)
> > > > and the CI there is going bonkers yet as I am in the middle of
> > changing
> > > > it.
> > > > If you want to file a PR against Weld 3, you can use 3.1 branch for
> > > that.
> > > >
> > > > Regards
> > > > Matej
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > > From: "Benjamin Confino" <BENJAMIC(a)uk.ibm.com>
> > > > > To: weld-dev(a)lists.jboss.org
> > > > > Cc: "Allan Zhang" <zhang(a)ca.ibm.com>,
"Shinji Ohtsuka"
> > > > <EB92769(a)jp.ibm.com>, "Emily Jiang"
<EMIJIANG(a)uk.ibm.com>
> > > > > Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2020 2:31:44 PM
> > > > > Subject: [weld-dev] Propagation of
> > > > org.jboss.weld.context.ConversationContext.conversations through
> > session
> > > > failover
> > > > >
> > > > > Hello weld
> > > > >
> > > > > I had a customer report that they were getting conversation not
> > found
> > > > > exceptions when restarting their server and visiting a url with
a
> > > ?cid=1
> > > > > suffix.
> > > > >
> > > > > After investigation I believe the issue is that weld was
acquiring
> > > it's
> > > > > ConversationContext.conversations from the session database via
> > > > >
com.ibm.ws.session.store.db.DatabaseSession.getMultiRowAppData().
> > Once
> > > > weld
> > > > > had retrieved the conversations map it would then decide that
> since
> > > the
> > > > map
> > > > > was already in the session attributes there was no need to put
it
> > back
> > > > into
> > > > > the attributes.
> > > > >
> > > > > This means that Liberty did not realise the conversations map
had
> > been
> > > > > updated, and did not store it's updated state into the
database
> when
> > > the
> > > > > server shut down again.
> > > > >
> > > > > I have submitted a pair of pull requests that asks weld to mark
> the
> > > > > conversation map as dirty upon access - this behaviour is gated
> > behind
> > > > > ConfigurationKey.RESET_HTTP_SESSION_ATTR_ON_BEAN_ACCESS - I
have
> > > tested
> > > > it
> > > > > locally and it works. The next step is to prepare a test fix
for
> the
> > > > > customer to verify. However I wanted to send you this quick
note
> to
> > > keep
> > > > you
> > > > > in the loop.
> > > > >
> > > > > Regards
> > > > > Benjamin
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