Mandatory Association with relaxed mode

[lutz_horn]

On http://docs.alfresco.com/4.2/concepts/metadata-model-assoc.html it says:

<blockquote>
As with mandatory properties, both enforced and relaxed modes are supported for the target end, allowing control over whether a transaction can commit or not based on missing associations.
</blockquote>

The XML Schema does not have any property to configure relaxed mode for a mandatory assoziation.

What am I missing? Is the documentation wrong in this point?

[kaynezhang]

Enforced and relaxed modes are configured using enforced attribute of mandatory sub element ,it is defined as following in modelschema.xsd

   <xs:complexType name="mandatoryDef" mixed="true">
      <xs:attribute name="enforced" use="optional" type="xs:boolean"/>     
   </xs:complexType>
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In model definition ,it will be like following

<association name="**:***">
   <source>
      <mandatory>false</mandatory>
      <many>true</many>
   </source>
   <target>
      <class>**:***</class>
      <mandatory enforced="false">true</mandatory>
      <many>false</many>
   </target>
</association>
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[lutz_horn]

Setting

enforced="true"‍

does not have any effect. This association (with dummy namespace and names)

<blockcode>
<association name="ns:assoc">
   <source>
      <mandatory>false</mandatory>
      <many>true</many>
   </source>
   <target>
      <class>cm:cmobject</class>
      <mandatory enforced="false">true</mandatory>                  
      <many>true</many>
   </target>
</association>
</blockcode>

produces this error:

<blockcode>
The association target multiplicity has been violated:
   Source Node: workspace://SpacesStore/ddf1f030-3e72-4a08-b21c-e5aee44b2d3b
   Association: Association[ class=ClassDef[name={http://example.com/model/ns/1.0}Aspect], name={http://example.com/model/ns/1.0}assocs, target class={http://www.alfresco.org/model/content/1.0}cmobject, source role=null, target role=null]
   Required target Multiplicity: 1..*
   Actual target Multiplicity: 0
</blockcode>

I can't find any working example of

<mandatory enforced="false">true</mandatory>‍

. Is this actually working?

[lutz_horn]

I consider this a bug and have created a ticket: https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-21097