[p2-dev] Transaction question / issue

[Henrik Lindberg <henrik.lindberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As I am working on a BackupStore to handle touchpoint actions that  
deal with deleting and overwriting files I need to understand how  
transactions in p2 work.
I have studied code, and want to get feedback on that my understanding  
is correct.

- A Touchpoint will receive calls to prepare(), and then to commit()  
or rollback() at the end of a transaction
- The purpose of prepare() is to ensure that all involved resources  
will be commitable
- A call to Touchpoint.initializePhase(... Profile,  Phase...) means  
that the touchpoint gets involved in a transaction for the Profile for  
a particular phase
- A touchpoint should associate any transaction state in the  
touchpoint properties map
- There are no concurrent transactions for a profile
- The undo methods on actions are called before the Touchpoint is told  
to rollback
- If something goes wrong - everything should be rolled back for the  
profile

Questions:
- is it possible to rollback only one phase, and then continue? (I  
think answer is no, but want to make sure).

Most likely a bug:

EngineSession.rollback() calls Touchpoint.commit() on line 144!  
Shouldn't this be a call to Touchpoint.rollback?
It does not matter for the current impl of NativeTouchpoint as it does  
nothing on commit and rollback, but the EclipseTouchpoint will commit  
the new configuration
instead of rolling back!  (it did call undo on all the actions  
though....)

Henrik Lindberg
henrik.lindberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx