IObjectScope Best Practices for SharePoint WebParts

[Michael]

Hello,

I've had a look at your best practices example from your code library here. The first approach is to use the master page as the creation point for the IObjectScope instance. This method isn't viable for SharePoint. I'm just wondering what your guidance for SharePoint web parts is?

For example if I have multiple web parts on the one page all calling my services layer which is exposed to web part via a singleton pattern, will the following call in this services layer be thread safe and will it handle all the queries / transactions etc to the database properly:

ObjectScopeProvider1.ObjectScope();

Or should I be doing something else in my services layer, like making sure that each service call makes use of the ObjectScopeProvider1.GetNewObjectScope()  ?

What is Telerik's guidance around this type of scenario?

[Zoran]

Hello Daniel P,

My suggestion is to use a helper class that should control the initialization of the object scope and it's disposal. It should be called by all the web parts that should pass their Page as parameter and that way they will use the same IObjectScope instance. That way the application should be thread safe and OpenAccess will handle all the concurrency issues.

Here is a sample implementation of such class:

public class ScopeController
{
    public static IObjectScope GetScope(Page page)
    {

        if ((IObjectScope)page.Session["SCOPE"] == null)
        {
            IObjectScope scope = Database.Get("SharePointConnection").GetObjectScope();
            page.Session["SCOPE"] = scope;
            page.Unload += new EventHandler(page_Unload);
        }
        return (IObjectScope)page.Session["SCOPE"];
    }
    static void page_Unload(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        Page page = (Page)sender;
        IObjectScope scope = (IObjectScope)page.Session["SCOPE"];
        scope.Dispose();
        page.Session.Remove("SCOPE");
    }
}

Greetings,
Zoran
the Telerik team

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