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Tom Clegg, 09/06/2018 02:19 PM


Collection version history

(draft)

Background: desired API features (#13494, #13561) epic ticket is #13109
  • Get current + previous versions of a collection with a single API call
  • Search all current + previous versions of collections with a single API call
  • Stable small numeric "version number" for each version of a given collection

Design

  • Store all versions in the collection table (much easier to do paging)
  • New database column "current_version_uuid" for latest version this the same as "uuid"
  • New database column indicates user-friendly version number (starting at 1) -- can be assigned safely after locking "current" row for update
  • Assign version number to the current version -- this way {uuid,version} can be used as a permanent reference to a specific version
  • Flag "include_past_versions" for "list" API to include old versions (otherwise, filter on current_version_uuid=uuid -- might need to adjust indexes to maintain performance)
  • Flag in site configuration to enable preserving old versions in database
  • Update owner_uuid of all old versions (in a transaction) when it changes in the current version
  • A permission link to the current version only implies permission to the most recent version (not the history)
  • Prohibit permission links to old versions (should be handled by check "can only make links to things that are visible to you", which should not include old versions)
  • Old versions may not be modified except for certain fields which must be synchronized with "current" version changes (owner_uuid, trash_at, delete_at). Updating owner_uuid, trash_at, delete_at does not update modified_at so modified_at shows when the version was created
  • Old versions with duplicate "name" does not conflict with (owner_uuid, name) uniqueness constraint
  • The following changes introduce a new version: manifest_text (portable_data_hash), description, properties, name,
  • The following changes do not introduce a new version, and a copied to all past version records: replication_*, storage_classes_*, trash_at/delete_at/is_trashed, owner_uuid, uuid (update current_uuid to retain database consistency)
  • If the existing version is less than N (site-configurable) minutes old, and has not been explicitly flagged via new API ("commit"?), it is not retained in the version history.

Updated by Tom Clegg over 5 years ago · 12 revisions