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SolutionManager.update() does not update entities in no value range

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Consider the following scenario:

  • there is planning solution S with planning list variable V having assigned an entity X,
  • SolutionManager.update(S) is called to calculate all shadow variables,
  • S is updated manually by removing X from V and X is removed from V's value range (and is no longer part of any value range),
  • SolutionManager.update(S) is called again to calculate all shadow variables,
  • now X still has stale shadow variables, such as non-null inverse reference to V, even though it was unassigned.

Not sure if the correspondence to the value range is a coincidence but if the value range contains all entities, the problem does not happen.

Is this expected behavior? Reproduced with Solver Enterprise 2.7.1.

Will link a reproducer test.

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