[Glass] Concurrency Pattern - Delete an object if a collction it contains is empty, how ?

[James Foster]

In order to better understand the situation, I have two questions:
	(1) Why do you want to remove an empty Set from an object?
	(2) Why not use locks?

James

> On Feb 27, 2019, at 4:16 AM, Marten Feldtmann via Glass <glass at lists.gemtalksystems.com> wrote:
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> This seems to be a general concurrency handling pattern in Gemstone:
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> Situation: I have an object, which holds a Set in one of its attributes (slots).
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> Question: I want to remove this object, IF the set is empty. But what happens, if another task is just adding an item to this set ? How can Gemstone find a commit conflict ? I do not want to use locks on objects.
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> Any other idea ?
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