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Java Data Objects
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Java Data Objects

by David Jordan, Craig Russell
April 2003
Beginner to intermediate
380 pages
12h 25m
English
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Appendix A. Lifecycle States and Transitions

Table A-1 specifies the values returned by the JDOHelper lifecycle state interrogation methods for all the JDO lifecycle states.

Table A-1. Lifecycle-state interrogation methods

State of instance

isPersistent( )

isTransactional( )

isDirty( )

isNew( )

isDeleted( )

Transient

false
false
false
false
false

Transient-clean

false
true
false
false
false

Transient-dirty

false
true
true
false
false

Hollow

true
false
false
false
false

Persistent-nontransactional

true
false
false
false
false

Persistent-new

true
true
true
true
false

Persistent-clean

true
true
false
false
false

Persistent-dirty

true
true
true
false
false

Persistent-deleted

true
true
true
false
true

Persistent-new-deleted

true
true
true
true
true

Table A-2 and Table A-3 contain the state transitions for every lifecycle state.

Table A-2. Lifecycle-state transitions

 

Current state

Method

Transient

P-new

P-clean

P-dirty

Hollow

makePersistent

P-new

unchanged

unchanged

unchanged

unchanged

deletePersistent

error

P-new-del

P-del

P-del

P-del

makeTransactional

T-clean

unchanged

unchanged

unchanged

P-clean

makeNontransactional

error

error

P-nontrans

error

unchanged

makeTransient

unchanged

error

Transient

error

Transient

commit withRetainValues = false

unchanged

Hollow

Hollow

Hollow

unchanged

commit withRetainValues = true

unchanged

P-nontrans

P-nontrans

P-nontrans

unchanged

rollback with RestoreValues = false

unchanged

Transient

Hollow

Hollow

unchanged

rollback with RestoreValues = true

unchanged

Transient

P-nontrans

P-nontrans

unchanged

refresh with active datastore transaction

unchanged ...

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