GDL2: record -snapshot / toManyProperties / shallowCopy

[Manuel Guesdon]

Hi,

Searching for a bug, I've found that calling -snapshot on a record which have 
toMany property fire toMany property value fault (if the value is still a 
fault) when the shallowCopy is done (in EOClassDescription -snapshot) on line:
value = AUTORELEASE([value shallowCopy]);

This (can) produce uneeded ((too)many) fetches so I'm thinking about a way to 
avoid this. 

Do we really need this ?
    I see 2 cases: 
            1) If a change is made on the array, during save processing we'll 
have to compare old and new values in the array.
            2) If no change is made, we could ahave same fault in snapshot and 
in object (it will be probably the most often case).

   For 1), If we put a "Fault copy" in the snapshot, it will be de-faulted 
during save processing (so we'll have 2 fetches: one for defaulting value dring 
change and one during comparaison). I don't see problem doing the snapshot 
de-fault only during comparaison, do you ?
              We could also storing in snopshot a kind of fault which will know 
when the orginal fault will be de-faulted (by the way of an observer ?). When 
the original fault is de-faulted, it will default iteself, and take original 
faut result 

Any  think about this ?


Manuel