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Piotr Kołaczkowski edited comment on CASSANDRA-4049 at 9/11/12 8:17 PM:
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Sorry for late reply, been busy fixing things in dse.

{quote}
{noformat}
catch (Exception e)
        {
            if (!"snapshots".equals(name) && !"backups".equals(name)
                    && !name.contains(".json"))
                logger.warn("Invalid file '{}' in data directory {}.", name, 
dir);
            return null;
        }
{noformat}
What was the reasoning behind this? Not saying it's wrong to remove it, but I 
want to make sure we understand what it was supposed to do, before deciding we 
don't need it.
{quote}

--This check was there before. Actually because this check was firing out 
warnings, we created this ticket ;)--
Oh, just noticed, you are referring to removed code. [~slebresne] said he could 
live without them. But if you insist, I can think of bringing them back. Don't 
know how to do it yet, but if it is important, I can try.

On the other hand, I left the warning about missing components (which is IMHO 
much more important than some spurious components):
{noformat}
if (!new File(descriptor.filenameFor(component)).exists())
                    logger.error("Missing component: " + 
descriptor.filenameFor(component));
{noformat}

-----------------
 
{noformat}
catch (IOException e)
        {
            Set<Component> components = 
Sets.newHashSetWithExpectedSize(Component.TYPES.size());
            for (Component.Type componentType : Component.TYPES)
            {
                Component component = new Component(componentType);
                if (new File(desc.filenameFor(component)).exists())
                    components.add(component);
            }

            saveTOC(desc, components);
            return components;
        }
{noformat}

This one is for backwards compatibility. If we find an SSTable without a TOC 
component (from previous version of C*), we just do what we always did - loop 
through all C* components. 

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{quote}
Use FileUtils.closeQuietly{quote}

Oh, yeah. I was looking for IOUtils.closeQuietly, and couldn't find it. Thanks, 
that is what I needed!

{quote}
But probably simpler to just use Guava's Files.readLines{quote}

Ok, I fix it.

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{quote}
Do we not know what components are necessary at construction time? Would 
strongly prefer an immutable set. Adding extra parameters to SSTW to do this is 
fine.{quote}

We do, but there is a chicken-and-egg problem here. CompactionStrategy knows. 
But CompactionStrategy needs a set of SSTables to be created. And to create 
SSTable readers you need to know the components. That is why I decided for a 
TOC component, that allows for reading the list of components at SSTable 
construction time.

The workflow of creating a new SSTable is currently as follows:

1. memtable is flushed to disk, with C* only components
2. compaction strategy is notified that a new sstable was created and gets an 
SSTableReader (with only default components)
3. compaction strategy adds its custom components to it; in order to do it, it 
has to read some components of SSTable (e.g. access the index or data file)

In order to make SSTableReader immutable, we had to ask currently installed 
compaction strategy for custom component list somewhere in the middle of this 
process, before creating SSTableReader. That is slightly more complex than what 
we have now (have to change the CS interface), but retaining full immutability 
is probably worth it.

{noformat}
public synchronized void addCustomComponent(Component component){noformat}

You are right that synchronized is wrong here. 

Thanks for great suggestions [~jbellis]. I look into improving my patch as soon 
as I'm done with the tickets I've got in the waiting queue for DSE 3.0.
                
      was (Author: pkolaczk):
    Sorry for late reply, been busy fixing things in dse.

{quote}
{noformat}
catch (Exception e)
        {
            if (!"snapshots".equals(name) && !"backups".equals(name)
                    && !name.contains(".json"))
                logger.warn("Invalid file '{}' in data directory {}.", name, 
dir);
            return null;
        }
{noformat}
What was the reasoning behind this? Not saying it's wrong to remove it, but I 
want to make sure we understand what it was supposed to do, before deciding we 
don't need it.
{quote}

--This check was there before. Actually because this check was firing out 
warnings, we created this ticket ;)--
Oh, just noticed, you are referring to removed code. [~slebresne] said he could 
live without them. But if you insist, I can think of bringing them back. Don't 
know how to do it yet, but if it is important, I can try.


{noformat}
if (!new File(descriptor.filenameFor(component)).exists())
                    logger.error("Missing component: " + 
descriptor.filenameFor(component));
{noformat}

-----------------
 
{noformat}
catch (IOException e)
        {
            Set<Component> components = 
Sets.newHashSetWithExpectedSize(Component.TYPES.size());
            for (Component.Type componentType : Component.TYPES)
            {
                Component component = new Component(componentType);
                if (new File(desc.filenameFor(component)).exists())
                    components.add(component);
            }

            saveTOC(desc, components);
            return components;
        }
{noformat}

This one is for backwards compatibility. If we find an SSTable without a TOC 
component (from previous version of C*), we just do what we always did - loop 
through all C* components. 

--------------------
{quote}
Use FileUtils.closeQuietly{quote}

Oh, yeah. I was looking for IOUtils.closeQuietly, and couldn't find it. Thanks, 
that is what I needed!

{quote}
But probably simpler to just use Guava's Files.readLines{quote}

Ok, I fix it.

--------------------
{quote}
Do we not know what components are necessary at construction time? Would 
strongly prefer an immutable set. Adding extra parameters to SSTW to do this is 
fine.{quote}

We do, but there is a chicken-and-egg problem here. CompactionStrategy knows. 
But CompactionStrategy needs a set of SSTables to be created. And to create 
SSTable readers you need to know the components. That is why I decided for a 
TOC component, that allows for reading the list of components at SSTable 
construction time.

The workflow of creating a new SSTable is currently as follows:

1. memtable is flushed to disk, with C* only components
2. compaction strategy is notified that a new sstable was created and gets an 
SSTableReader (with only default components)
3. compaction strategy adds its custom components to it; in order to do it, it 
has to read some components of SSTable (e.g. access the index or data file)

In order to make SSTableReader immutable, we had to ask currently installed 
compaction strategy for custom component list somewhere in the middle of this 
process, before creating SSTableReader. That is slightly more complex than what 
we have now (have to change the CS interface), but retaining full immutability 
is probably worth it.

{noformat}
public synchronized void addCustomComponent(Component component){noformat}

You are right that synchronized is wrong here. 

Thanks for great suggestions [~jbellis]. I look into improving my patch as soon 
as I'm done with the tickets I've got in the waiting queue for DSE 3.0.
                  
> Add generic way of adding SSTable components required custom compaction 
> strategy
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-4049
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4049
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Core
>            Reporter: Piotr Kołaczkowski
>            Assignee: Piotr Kołaczkowski
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: compaction
>             Fix For: 1.1.6
>
>         Attachments: pluggable_custom_components-1.1.4.patch
>
>
> CFS compaction strategy coming up in the next DSE release needs to store some 
> important information in Tombstones.db and RemovedKeys.db files, one per 
> sstable. However, currently Cassandra issues warnings when these files are 
> found in the data directory. Additionally, when switched to 
> SizeTieredCompactionStrategy, the files are left in the data directory after 
> compaction.
> The attached patch adds new components to the Component class so Cassandra 
> knows about those files.

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