Mailing List webobjects-dev@wocommunity.org Message #183
From: OCsite <webobjects-dev@wocommunity.org>
Subject: Cannot determine primary key for entity
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2021 13:37:43 +0200
To: <webobjects-dev@wocommunity.org>
Hi there,

just bumped into another weird EOF case. A pretty plain fetch caused a “Cannot determine primary key for entity” exception. The row contains a number of columns whose values makes sense, some null, some non-null, with one exception — the primary key, modelled as an attribute uid, is indeed a null, thus the exception makes a perfect sense.

How can this happen?

===
IllegalArgumentException: Cannot determine primary key for entity DBRecord from row: {... uid = <com.webobjects.foundation.NSKeyValueCoding$Null>; ... }
  at com.webobjects.eoaccess.EODatabaseChannel._fetchObject(EODatabaseChannel.java:348)
     ... skipped 2 stack elements
  at com.webobjects.eocontrol.EOObjectStoreCoordinator.objectsWithFetchSpecification(EOObjectStoreCoordinator.java:488)
  at com.webobjects.eocontrol.EOEditingContext.objectsWithFetchSpecification(EOEditingContext.java:4069)
  at er.extensions.eof.ERXEC.objectsWithFetchSpecification(ERXEC.java:1215)
     ... skipped 1 stack elements
  at com.webobjects.eocontrol.EOObjectStoreCoordinator.objectsForSourceGlobalID(EOObjectStoreCoordinator.java:634)
  at com.webobjects.eocontrol.EOEditingContext.objectsForSourceGlobalID(EOEditingContext.java:3923)
  at er.extensions.eof.ERXEC.objectsForSourceGlobalID(ERXEC.java:1178)
     ... skipped 1 stack elements
  at com.webobjects.eoaccess.EOAccessArrayFaultHandler.completeInitializationOfObject(EOAccessArrayFaultHandler.java:77)
  at com.webobjects.eocontrol._EOCheapCopyMutableArray.willRead(_EOCheapCopyMutableArray.java:45)
  at com.webobjects.eocontrol._EOCheapCopyMutableArray.count(_EOCheapCopyMutableArray.java:103)
  at com.webobjects.foundation.NSArray.isEmpty(NSArray.java:1888)
...
===

Just in case it happens to be important (I believe it is not), the problem happens at row

        ... =eolist.representedObject.records().isEmpty()?...:...

where records just returns storedValueForKey('records'), self-evidently a fault, which fires to fetch the rows.

Searching the Web, all I've found is this (linked from here), which does not really help :) Truth is, some background threads do run at the moment; they are comparatively plain though and I can't see why they should cause the problem for the R/R thread. All they do is to

1. get their own OSC from the pool, making sure they never get the same OSC normal sessions have
2. create a new ERXEC in this OSC
3. get a local instance of an object in the EC

=== this is the code of the background thread; a number of those runs:
        def store
        for (def pool=ERXObjectStoreCoordinatorPool._pool();;) {
            store=pool.nextObjectStore
            if (store!=_sessionosc) break // there's one OSC for all sessions, stored in _sessionosc
        }
        return eo.localInstanceIn(ERXEC.newEditingContext(store)).numberOfMasterRowsWithoutOwner()
===

and the method simply fetches:

===
    int numberOfMasterRowsWithoutOwner {
        def mymasterrow=EOQualifier.qualifierWithQualifierFormat("importObject.dataBlock = %@ AND recordOwner = NULL",[this] as NSA)
        return ERXEOControlUtilities.objectCountWithQualifier(this.editingContext, 'DBRecord', mymasterrow)
    }
===

Most time it works properly. Occasionally — rather rarely — the problem above happens. Can you see what am I doing wrong?

Thanks a lot,
OC


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