Changed loadBefore to operate more like load behaved, especially

  with regard to the load lock.  This allowes ZEO to work with the
  upcoming ZODB 5, which used loadbefore rather than load.

  Reimplemented load using loadBefore, this testing loadBefore
  extensively via existing tests.

CHANGES.rst

@@ -4,6 +4,15 @@ Changelog
 4.2.0 (unreleased)
 ------------------
 
+- Changed loadBefore to operate more like load behaved, especially
+  with regard to the load lock.  This allowes ZEO to work with the
+  upcoming ZODB 5, which used loadbefore rather than load.
+
+  Reimplemented load using loadBefore, this testing loadBefore
+  extensively via existing tests.
+
+- Fixed: the ZEO cache loadBefore method failed to utilize current data.
+
 - Drop support for Python 2.6 and 3.2.
 
 4.2.0b1 (2015-06-05)

src/ZEO/ClientStorage.py

@@ -53,6 +53,9 @@
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
+# max signed 64-bit value ~ infinity :) Signed cuz LBTree and TimeStamp
+m64 = b'\x7f\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff'
+
 try:
     from ZODB.ConflictResolution import ResolvedSerial
 except ImportError:
@@ -819,75 +822,37 @@ def load(self, oid, version=''):
         otherwise a KeyError is raised.
 
         """
-        self._lock.acquire()    # for atomic processing of invalidations
-        try:
-            t = self._cache.load(oid)
-            if t:
-                return t
-        finally:
-            self._lock.release()
+        result = self.loadBefore(oid, m64)
+        if result is None:
+            raise POSException.POSKeyError(oid)
+        return result[:2]
+
+    def loadBefore(self, oid, tid):
+        """Load the object data written before a transaction id
+        """
+        with self._lock:    # for atomic processing of invalidations
+            result = self._cache.loadBefore(oid, tid)
+            if result:
+                return result
 
         if self._server is None:
             raise ClientDisconnected()
 
-        self._load_lock.acquire()
-        try:
-            self._lock.acquire()
-            try:
+        with self._load_lock:
+            with self._lock:
                 self._load_oid = oid
                 self._load_status = 1
-            finally:
-                self._lock.release()
-
-            data, tid = self._server.loadEx(oid)
-
-            self._lock.acquire()    # for atomic processing of invalidations
-            try:
-                if self._load_status:
-                    self._cache.store(oid, tid, None, data)
-                self._load_oid = None
-            finally:
-                self._lock.release()
-        finally:
-            self._load_lock.release()
 
-        return data, tid
+            result = self._server.loadBefore(oid, tid)
 
-    def loadBefore(self, oid, tid):
-        self._lock.acquire()
-        try:
-            t = self._cache.loadBefore(oid, tid)
-            if t is not None:
-                return t
-        finally:
-            self._lock.release()
-
-        t = self._server.loadBefore(oid, tid)
-        if t is None:
-            return None
-        data, start, end = t
-        if end is None:
-            # This method should not be used to get current data.  It
-            # doesn't use the _load_lock, so it is possble to overlap
-            # this load with an invalidation for the same object.
-
-            # If we call again, we're guaranteed to get the
-            # post-invalidation data.  But if the data is still
-            # current, we'll still get end == None.
-
-            # Maybe the best thing to do is to re-run the test with
-            # the load lock in the case.  That's slow performance, but
-            # I don't think real application code will ever care about
-            # it.
-
-            return data, start, end
-        self._lock.acquire()
-        try:
-            self._cache.store(oid, start, end, data)
-        finally:
-            self._lock.release()
+            if result:
+                with self._lock:    # for atomic processing of invalidations
+                    if self._load_status:
+                        data, tid, end = result
+                        self._cache.store(oid, tid, end, data)
+                    self._load_oid = None
 
-        return data, start, end
+        return result
 
     def new_oid(self):
         """Storage API: return a new object identifier."""

src/ZEO/zrpc/connection.py

@@ -242,19 +242,24 @@ class Connection(smac.SizedMessageAsyncConnection, object):
     #         Undone oid info returned by vote.
     #
     # Z3101 -- checkCurrentSerialInTransaction
+    #
+    # Z4 -- checkCurrentSerialInTransaction
+    #       No-longer call load.
 
     # Protocol variables:
     # Our preferred protocol.
-    current_protocol = b"Z3101"
+    current_protocol = b"Z4"
 
     # If we're a client, an exhaustive list of the server protocols we
     # can accept.
-    servers_we_can_talk_to = [b"Z308", b"Z309", b"Z310", current_protocol]
+    servers_we_can_talk_to = [b"Z308", b"Z309", b"Z310", b"Z3101",
+                              current_protocol]
 
     # If we're a server, an exhaustive list of the client protocols we
     # can accept.
     clients_we_can_talk_to = [
-        b"Z200", b"Z201", b"Z303", b"Z308", b"Z309", b"Z310", current_protocol]
+        b"Z200", b"Z201", b"Z303", b"Z308", b"Z309", b"Z310", b"Z3101",
+        current_protocol]
 
     # This is pretty excruciating.  Details:
     #