symbol update reads the symbol from the cache

[werner2101]

If I update a symbol that I've used before, then the update fails.

To reproduce:
* place a (user defined) symbol
* goto the symbol (hierarchy symbol)
* edit the symbol and save it
* go the hierarchy up
* update the symbol --> nothing happens.

If you refresh the library in the component chooser before updating, the update works fine.

geda version: 9b075276bf13f694b9d7f2cf64197da03b7d1cc6

Regards
Werner

[Peter Clifton (pcjc2)]

Assigning Peter B, since he wrote the caching code, therefore deserves the "blame" ;)

[Peter Clifton (pcjc2)]

Fixed (worked around) by invalidating the symbol cache before fetching the updated symbol data from the library.

NB: No API or ABI changes.

A more complete fix will be to add API for invalidating a specific symbol by name.

[gpleda.org commit robot (gpleda-launchpad-robot)]

Bug was fixed by a commit
git master commit ebfe6ae6a76b6a44a0bbe2d184bf99bfee7d97bf
http://git.gpleda.org/?p=gaf.git;a=commit;h=ebfe6ae6a76b6a44a0bbe2d184bf99bfee7d97bf

commit ebfe6ae6a76b6a44a0bbe2d184bf99bfee7d97bf
Author: Peter TB Brett <email address hidden>
Commit: Peter TB Brett <email address hidden>

    Add s_clib_symbol_invalidate_data().

    This allows a symbol's data to be reloaded from disk without
    invalidating the full symbol data cache.

    Closes-bug: lp-698504