Source-derived document; reported behaviour, inference and evidence gaps are identified in the text.
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Lifecycle states
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Which states can a business object enter, and what triggers or guards each change?
No supported lifecycle-state transition model can be recovered for the Customer record or Order record from the supplied evidence. The sources expose an order backlog field with observed y and n values, plus an optional paid-date field, but they do not define those values as named lifecycle states or show operations that transition between them. E0009 The chosen, exist, and cur variables describe UI or selection control rather than business-object lifecycle states. E0009
The model therefore contains no state elements or transitions. This avoids treating field values, selection flags, known enum-like labels, rejected operations, or successful record insertion/deletion as lifecycle transitions without explicit evidence. E0009 The available order flows show adding, modifying, querying, and deleting records, but do not assign named lifecycle states to those operations. E0009
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Gaps
- No explicit Customer record lifecycle states are supplied. The evidence describes customer insertion, update, deletion, querying, and deletion guards, but does not name states or establish state transitions. E0009
- No explicit Order record lifecycle states are supplied. The
backlogfield is mapped toorders.backlog, and visible data containsyandn, but the evidence does not define their meanings as lifecycle states or show transitions between them. E0009 - The paid-date field is evidenced for orders, including populated and empty values, but no source-supported transition into or out of a paid state is shown. E0009
- Record creation and deletion are operations, not evidenced lifecycle-state transitions; deletion may also be declined or may produce misleading user feedback, so it cannot establish a successful transition from the supplied material. E0010
- The source does not establish initial or terminal states, transition triggers, guards for lifecycle changes, or whether the displayed form definitions correspond semantically to the unavailable binary forms. E0010
Recovery limitations
- No supported relationships reconstructed.
Sources
- E0009 — SHA256
c4ffb94922eae3cda2f1c6d6b1215da47b424d41fea52db3870783bd43051b30 - E0010 — SHA256
bd29371182d16de63a7651533fa5c84e151a01ea9bf23399f7f6ca0397ab0250
Harten documentation of the Informix 4GL and Java source repository, from the retained 17 October 2026 export. The exact upstream revision analysed is not established. Source findings do not establish runtime behaviour or equivalence between the implementations.
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