Re: Changes in DB Value not Reflected in Output

From:
John Smith <wleung7@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 1 Feb 2011 14:47:40 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<0f1fa97c-d5ae-46fd-96ab-aa6b7c36e995@r16g2000yql.googlegroups.com>
On Jan 29, 6:40 pm, Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeo...@verizon.invalid> wrote:

On 01/29/2011 02:15 PM, John Smith wrote:

- why are the two columns not showing up consistently across desktop
and server runs?


Without knowing anything else, I am going to guess that the answer is
you misprogrammed some concurrency code--on the desktop, contacting the
database on itself is likely to cause some caches to end up being
flushed and thereby causing memory to become updated across threads,
while a database on the server is not going to cause remote cache flushes=

..

- why the column in the report file remains as 0 after changing the
value from true to false?


This I can't answer without knowing anything else. Concurrency could
again be a fault here, but I really don't know.

The Java code involves several classes and quite long to post; but I
can provide snippets if it helps.


SSCCE would be invaluable if possible. To beat a horse to a bloody
death, if all other explanations fail, concurrency can be a good guess
for failure, but that does imply that most of the other code is not
buggy in this sense. In any case, I'm not entirely sure what you're
doing or what the correct outputs of those actions should have been, let
alone where in the code it could be failing.

--
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not
tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth


When running the following code snippet to display the two columns in
the file,
gen.isGenViaFeed(curve) returns true and gen.isSaveRecRate(curve)
returns true
so iss.setMarkitCurve(""); and iss.setMarkitRecRate(""); are
executed

expected behaviour:
since I have set GEN_VIA_FEED = false via the GUI I expect
gen.isGenViaFeed(curve) to return false
so iss.setMarkitCurve("N"); and iss.setMarkitRecRate("N"); should be
exectued.

        String curveKey = (iss.getCurrency() == null ? DEFAULT_CURRENCY :
iss.getCurrency()) +
            SNP_RATING_DELIMITER +
            iss.getIssuerId() +
            SNP_RATING_DELIMITER +
            (iss.getSeniority() == null ? domainSen : iss.getSeniority()) +
            SNP_RATING_DELIMITER +
            (iss.getRestructuringType() == null ? domainRT :
iss.getRestructuringType());

        CurveProbability curve = curvesMap.get(curveKey);

        CurveGeneratorProbability gen = new
CurveGeneratorProbability();
        if (curve == null || gen.isGenViaFeed(curve) ) {
         iss.setMarkitCurve("");
        } else {
         iss.setMarkitCurve("N");
        }
        if ( gen.isSaveRecRate(curve) ) {
         iss.setMarkitRecRate("");
        } else {
         iss.setMarkitRecRate("N");
        }
    }

    /**
     * Is parameter GEN_VIA_FEED set to "true" (ignore case)
     *
     * @param curve Curve to examine
     * @return True or false
     */
    public boolean isGenViaFeed(Curve curve)
    {
        if (curve == null || curve.getGeneratorParameters() == null=
)
        {
            return false;
        }
        String param = (String)
(curve.getGeneratorParameters()).get(GEN_VIA_FEED);
        if (param == null)
        {
            return false;
        }
        else
        {
            return param.equalsIgnoreCase("true");
        }
    }

    I found a couple of references to curve.setGeneratorParameters() but
when I put in a breakpoint none of those references were hit.
    The obvious answer here is to "change the code such that
curve.setGeneratorParameters() will be run"; however I have seen this
same code being able
    to print "N" (=false) and "N" (=false) in the GUI. When print to the
file the logic goes thorough the same code snippet, reading the same
value in the DB.
    Why is "0" (=true) and "0" (=true") printed in the report file?

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