= FDO RFC 58 - Keep It after One Long Transaction is Committed =

This page contains a request for comments document (RFC) for the FDO Open Source project.  
More FDO RFCs can be found on the [wiki:FDORfcs RFCs] page.

== Status == 
 
||RFC Template Version||1.1||
||Submission Date||March 29, 2011||
||Last Modified||Greg Boone, April 13, 2011||
||Author||Leaf Li||
||RFC Status||Ready For Review||
||Implementation Status||Ready For Review||
||Proposed Milestone||3.7.0.0||
||Assigned PSC guide(s)||Orest Halustchak, Greg Boone||
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== Overview ==

The RFC is to add an extra parameter to FdoICommitLongTransaction command to indicate whether to remove the long transaction after is committed successfully or to keep it.

== Motivation ==

Currently after executing FdoICommitLongTransaction command successfully, FDO will merge changes in this long transaction to the parent version and delete the child version. Based on feedback from ArcSDE users, they would like to see a merge operation that does not remove the child. They want to keep using the child version to reuse for further editing work.

== Proposed Solution ==

The proposed solution is to add an extra parameter to FdoICommitLongTransaction command to indicate whether to keep the committed long transaction in the version graph and not remove it. Its default value is false. It means removing the long transaction from version graph after it is committed. Changes to class FdoICommitLongTransaction are as follows.

{{{
class FdoICommitLongTransaction: public FdoIFeatureCommand
{
public:
    /// \brief
    /// Returns true if keeping the long transaction after it is committed.
    /// Returns false if remove the long transaction after it is committed.
    /// Default value for KeepLongTransaction is false.
    /// 
    /// \return
    /// Returns true if keeping the long transaction after it is committed.
    /// 
    FDO_API virtual FdoBoolean GetKeepLongTransaction () = 0;

    /// \brief
    /// Sets whether to keep the long transaction after it is committed.
    /// Default value for KeepLongTransaction is false.
    ///
    /// \param value 
    /// Input one boolean value to indicate whether to keep the committed
    /// long transaction
    /// 
    /// \return
    /// Returns nothing
    /// 
    FDO_API virtual void SetKeepLongTransaction (FdoBoolean value) = 0;
    ......
};
}}}

== Implications ==

ArcSDE provider will be modified to support this extra parameter.

== Test Plan ==

ArcSDE provider unit tests will be expanded to test the proposed enhancements defined above.

== !Funding/Resources ==

Autodesk to provide resources / funding