[kepler-dev] [Bug 4584] New: - CacheManager.getObject(KeplerLSID lsid) returns an object with the wrong LSID

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http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4584

           Summary: CacheManager.getObject(KeplerLSID lsid) returns an
                    object with the wrong LSID
           Product: Kepler
           Version: 1.x dev
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: core
        AssignedTo: aschultz at nceas.ucsb.edu
        ReportedBy: aschultz at nceas.ucsb.edu
         QAContact: kepler-dev at kepler-project.org


It seems that objects returned by the CacheManager.getObject(KeplerLSID lsid)
method do not always have the right LSID...  There is a lot of funny
translation and things going on with the CacheObjects.  This mechanism of
storing a serialized CacheObject that contains metadata about the object in
addition to the object itself is inherently fragile.  I would propose that we
do away with CacheObjects and use the SQL database to store metadata about
objects and serialize them directly to files (instead of serializing their
CacheObject counterparts).  This would greatly reduce the complexity of the
system.