GnomePropertyBag

[Nat Friedman <nat helixcode com>]

Dave Camp writes:
 > 
 > There is a fairly serious bug in GnomePropertyBag that prevents 
 > more than one property bag from working properly in a single 
 > server. The core of the problem is that one POA is used for all 
 > propertybags, but the ObjectIds used by this POA are not unique 
 > between bags. 

    Ok, this is a bug.  We're supposed to create a new poa each time.
That is why there is code in there to generate a fresh POA name each
time (the g_strdup_printf).

 > This causes a problem.  When the new ServantManager is selected 
 > into the POA, the old one is discared, and all future requests 
 > handled by the POA will go through this servant manager.  So the 
 > POA only recognizes the last created servant.

    Right, right.  This all stems from the problem that we are only
creating one poa.

 > There are two solutions to this problem.  One is to give each 
 > bag its own POA.  This would be easy to implement, but perhaps 
 > not the best solution.

    Why not?

 > * The ObjectIds created by gnome_property_bag_create_objref()
 >   must be unique between all PropertyBags.

    Too much of a pain.  Let's just create one POA for each property
bag.


 > Below is a patch which implements the second solution.  I would
 > appreciate feedback.

    What are your objections exactly?

Nat