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  1. Mongoid
  2. MONGOID-3795

Clarify/improve order of callback invocation on embedded associations vs host documents

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    • Type: Icon: Improvement Improvement
    • Resolution: Done
    • Priority: Icon: Major - P3 Major - P3
    • 8.0.1
    • Affects Version/s: None
    • Component/s: Associations, Callbacks
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      I have a following setup:

      class Album
  
  include Mongoid::Document
  include Mongoid::Timestamps

  embeds_many :photos, cascade_callbacks: true

end


class Photo 

  include Mongoid::Document

  embedded_in :album

  mount_uploader :file, PhotoUploader

  after_save do
    PhotoWorker.perform_async(id)
  end

end

      .. now, because I need to process photos with some Sidekiq workers I have an after_save callback (in Photo) that starts the worker.

      album.save

      However, the issue is that if the .save is called on the parent model, the embedded documents callbacks will all be called first, and the very 'save' command (for mongoid) will be sent only afterwards in the usual flow of parent document.

      I have some debug prints setup and it can be seen that the callbacks run as follows

      "photo before_save"
"photo after_save"
"album before_save"
# runs the save call
"album after_save"

      .. so you can see that in this case one is being told that a document has been saved when it is not, and so, in some cases, Sidekiq workers cannot find the documents.

      I'm guessing that this might not be the intended behaviour.

            Assignee:
            dmitry.rybakov@mongodb.com Dmitry Rybakov
            Reporter:
            mirzali mirzali
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