SharedState observe() method and SharedStateCollection for same node

[jipodine]

The documentation of the observemethod states:

The states that are created by the same node are not propagated through the observe callback.

While I understand that their is a use for this, it seems a bit counter-intuitive as the default behaviour. In particular, when moving code from a client (controller, pure observer) to the server (where creation of states may happen), the result changes.

The wide implications of this to the SharedStateCollection seem even more bizarre to me. It is not documented, but as most of the methods rely on on underlying observe, no locally created state ever appear in them: find, forEach, onAttach, onUpdate, etc.

I do not know what would be a good solution

• an excludeLocal parameter (for both the observe and the getCollection methods.
• a separate observeOthers method (and getCollectionOfOthers?)

[b-ma]

Yup right, I would go for the excludeLocal parameter solution, i.e. something like:

StateManager::observe(schemaName, callback, { excludeLocal = false } = {});
StateManager::getCollection(schemaName, { excludeLocal = false } = {});

[b-ma]

Fixed with d0d255e and d0d255e