AW: Conflict detection in DeltaV using ServerSide Workspace

So here is my next approach to detect conflicts on server-side;-)

Preconditions: 
- the server allows checkout-fork 
- checkin-fork will always be forbidden. (See chapter 11.7.2 in in Dusseault´s book)

The client creates a private activity and does a “checkout” of his files to the activity. Furthermore the client adds a “apply-to-version” element inside the checkout request. This turns the VCR in a “Working Resource” so that every client has its own working copy.

Now we come to the conflict detection:

When the client “checkin” the activity, all his private working resources will be automatically checked-in by the server. When someone else already changed and checked in a VCR that is in our activity (a conflict) the server will see, that the predecessor-set to what our working resources points to, already has a successor. In this situation the server normally has to do a fork. Checkin-fork is forbidden by the server so the server return an errors message.

Is this a possible approach?

Thanks for your answers :-)

  Martin