Getting code ready for production
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I am currently doing the production-ready pass through the Rhino DivanDB code base, and I thought that this change was interesting enough to post about:

public void Execute()
{
    while(context.DoWork)
    {
        bool foundWork = false;
        transactionalStorage.Batch(actions =>
        {
           var task = actions.GetFirstTask();
           if(task == null)
           {
               actions.Commit(); 
               return;
           }
           foundWork = true;

           task.Execute(context);

           actions.CompleteCurrentTask();

           actions.Commit();
        });
        if(foundWork == false)
            context.WaitForWork();
    }
}

This is “just get things working” phase. When getting a piece of code ready for production, I am looking for several things:

  • If this is running in production, and I get the log file, will I be able to understand what is going on?
  • Should this code handle any exceptions?
  • What happens if I send values from a previous version? From a future version?
  • Am I doing unbounded operations?
  • For error handling, can I avoid any memory allocations?

The result for this piece of code was:

public void Execute()
{
    while(context.DoWork)
    {
        bool foundWork = false;
        transactionalStorage.Batch(actions =>
        {
            var taskAsJson = actions.GetFirstTask();
            if (taskAsJson == null)
            {
                actions.Commit();
                return;
            }
            log.DebugFormat("Executing {0}", taskAsJson);
            foundWork = true;

            Task task;
            try
            {
                task = Task.ToTask(taskAsJson);
                try
                {
                    task.Execute(context);
                }
                catch (Exception e)
                {
                    if (log.IsWarnEnabled)
                    {
                        log.Warn(string.Format("Task {0} has failed and was deleted without completing any work", taskAsJson), e);
                    }
                }
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                log.Error("Could not create instance of a task from " + taskAsJson, e);
            }

            actions.CompleteCurrentTask();
            actions.Commit();
        });
        if(foundWork == false)
            context.WaitForWork();
    }
}

The code size blows up really quickly.

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