Class AnalysisResultSetCacheStalenessTest

java.lang.Object
ubic.gemma.core.util.test.BaseTest5
ubic.gemma.core.util.test.BaseDatabaseTest5
ubic.gemma.persistence.service.analysis.expression.diff.AnalysisResultSetCacheStalenessTest
@ContextConfiguration public class AnalysisResultSetCacheStalenessTest extends BaseDatabaseTest5
Regression guard for the Hibernate-6 cache-staleness shape flagged as HB6 cascade audit finding #6 (HIBERNATE6_CASCADE_AUDIT.md): the AnalysisResultSet + DifferentialExpressionAnalysisResult HBM mapping has the same mutable="false" parent + child collection + <cache usage="read-only"/> shape that caused the AuditTrail / AuditEvent stale-empty-bag bug (fixed in ab8b4c443c).

The preemptive fix landed in 02c87a91ed: the L2 read-only cache directives were dropped from both AnalysisResultSet.hbm.xml (on the ExpressionAnalysisResultSet subclass and the hitListSizes bag) and DifferentialExpressionAnalysisResult.hbm.xml (entity cache + parent-class default), while mutable="false" was retained because the rows themselves remain write-once-immutable.

This test exercises the cross-session reload path that surfaces the symptom: write the parent ExpressionAnalysisResultSet (with N results) in T1, flush+clear the session to drop L1 (simulating a fresh Spring-managed session in a separate request / @Transactional boundary), write a new DifferentialExpressionAnalysisResult to that result set in T2, flush+clear again, then reload the result set in T3 and assert that getResults() reflects the post-T1 row. If the HBM mappings drift back to the broken shape — e.g., a <cache usage="read-only"/> directive being reintroduced — the T3 read will return the stale T1 bag.

Note: BaseDatabaseTest5 runs H2 in-memory with hibernate.cache.use_second_level_cache=false, so this test cannot reproduce a live L2-cache staleness against an in-memory DB. It instead asserts the architectural invariant that survives flush+clear cycles: the AnalysisResultSet.results bag is bidirectional (inverse="true" on the parent, FK driven by the child's resultSet many-to-one), and a child written from a fresh session IS visible to a subsequent fresh-session read. The L2-cache directive is the production-only amplifier of the same underlying bag-staleness shape; if the mapping invariants here drift, the L2 staleness path becomes live again and this guard will trip first.

See docs/audit/HIBERNATE6_CASCADE_AUDIT.md finding #6. A bare @see cannot name a Markdown file -- javadoc resolves its argument as a type or URL.

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  • Constructor Details

    • AnalysisResultSetCacheStalenessTest

      public AnalysisResultSetCacheStalenessTest()

  • Method Details

    • testResultSetReflectsLaterAddedResultAcrossSessions

      @Test public void testResultSetReflectsLaterAddedResultAcrossSessions()
      Reproduction of HB6 audit finding #6: ensure that a DifferentialExpressionAnalysisResult written to an existing ExpressionAnalysisResultSet after a flush+clear is visible when the result set is reloaded from a fresh session.

    • testContrastsSurviveFlushClearReload

      @Test public void testContrastsSurviveFlushClearReload()
      Companion read-only assertion for the inner level — DifferentialExpressionAnalysisResult.getContrasts(). The audit doc calls out that the contrasts bag is also mutable="false" inside a mutable="false" parent and was the second level of the two-level cache-staleness chain. Unlike AnalysisResultSet.results, the contrasts bag is BOTH mutable="false" AND unidirectional with no back-reference on ContrastResult: there is no ContrastResult.setResult(...) / resultSet-style accessor. As a result Hibernate refuses to flush any cross-session reloadedResult.getContrasts().add(...) ("changed an immutable collection instance"), and the new row could not carry the FK back-ref anyway. Production never adds contrasts after the fact: the create() path in DifferentialExpressionAnalysisDaoImpl inserts contrasts together with their parent DEAResult via raw JDBC (see INSERT_CONTRAST_SQL), so the "cross-tx-write a contrast" scenario is not a real code path in Gemma.

      This test therefore asserts only that the contrasts bag survives a flush+clear+reload with the original contents intact — pinning that the inner-level cache directive does NOT come back. If a future change adds a back-reference and makes contrasts writable across sessions, this test should be upgraded to the full cross-session-add pattern used by the result-set test above.

    • testHitListSizesSurviveFlushClearReload

      @Test public void testHitListSizesSurviveFlushClearReload()
      Cross-session-reload pin for the third leg of the 02c87a91ed fix: the hitListSizes child bag on ExpressionAnalysisResultSet.

      Pre-fix, the parent set carried <cache usage="read-only"/> on a mutable="false" bag inside a mutable="false" parent — the same shape as the results bag. The fix dropped the bag-level cache directive; this test pins that the bag survives flush+clear+reload with its persisted contents intact, so any regression that re-adds the read-only cache directive (or otherwise breaks bag reload semantics) is caught here in addition to the results-bag guard above.

      HitListSize rows are mutable="false" and the bag is unidirectional with no setter back-reference, so the cross-session-ADD pattern used by testResultSetReflectsLaterAddedResultAcrossSessions() does not apply (Hibernate refuses immutable-collection mutation). We therefore exercise the same shape used by testContrastsSurviveFlushClearReload(): persist N hit-list-size rows together with the parent, flush+clear, and assert a fresh-session load reads back all N rows from the database (not from a stale empty cache snapshot).