[jboss-dev-forums] [Design the new POJO MicroContainer] - Deployment redeploy

[alesj]

After spending a day on figuring out why my jboss-minimal-tests are not working as they should I also stumbled upon a question what happens if metadata changes?

I remember I had previous discussion about this with Scott.
I even found TODO (which is probably my) in
 - http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/trunk/system/src/main/org/jboss/system/server/profile/basic/ProfileImpl.java
But I can see I never given it enough of thought, since I only yesterday saw that we're missing all this functionality in deployers.

Why 'missing all this functionality in deployers'?
Since in order for a client to know if the metadata has been changed, it needs to know where metadata resides, but that's is server side (structure) detail.

So this is what I came up with.
Few pseudo code lines.

The entry point to all should of course be - as for all other deployment things - DeployerClient:

  |    // deleted, modified, nothing
  |    ModifcationType getModificationType();
  | 

First we need to know if client slide Deployment still exists:

  | boolean exists();
  | 
which for VFSDeployment it would check if the root still exists.

Then we need to get server side representation of deployment - DeploymentContext.

And recursively check it is was modified.

  | if (deploymentContext.isModified())
  |    return true;
  | 
  | List<DeploymentContext> chidren = deploymentContext.getChildre();
  | for (DeploymentContext child : children)
  |    return checkModified(child);
  | 

Probably in case of VFSDeploymentContext we will check the root and metadata locations.

So at the end, impl in MainDeployerImpl would look like

  | ModificationType getModificationType(Deployment deployment)
  | {
  |    if (deployment.exists() == false)
  |       return DELETED;
  | 
  |    DeploymentContext context = getContext(deployment);
  |    if (context.isModified())
  |       return MODIFIED;
  |    else
  |       return NONE;
  | }
  | 
(OK, bunch of assert checks missing, but we get the picture :-))

So ProfileImpl would then simply call this method to see which deployment need to be handled.

Sounds OK?

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