+1 for cleaning it
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Jialin Qiao
Apache IoTDB PMC

Yuan Tian <jackietie...@gmail.com> 于2023年7月14日周五 21:28写道:
>
> Sure! Do as you want! We would love to see these refactoring prs.
>
>
> Best,
> ------------------
> Yuan Tian
>
> On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 9:20 PM Christofer Dutz
> <christofer.d...@c-ware.de> wrote:
> >
> > Aaah cool,
> >
> > and sorry for asking so much … much of IoTDBs history is not recorded and 
> > I’m just starting to get my hands dirty.
> > I am afraid, that I’ll probably have more questions like this as they come 
> > up.
> >
> > But that means, if I see something that can be refactored quickly, I can 
> > create PRs for stuff like that?
> >
> > Just asking, cause I like to do simple maintenance tasks in order to think 
> > about other problems.
> > In PLC4X I usually did cleanups regularly for such reasons.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >
> > Von: Yuan Tian <jackietie...@gmail.com>
> > Datum: Freitag, 14. Juli 2023 um 13:58
> > An: dev@iotdb.apache.org <dev@iotdb.apache.org>
> > Betreff: Re: Usage of Singleton pattern?
> > Hi Chris,
> >
> > Actually, most of the existing  Singleton pattern Class is just for
> > simplifying things during development. And we did run into trouble
> > when writing some UTs(In such case, I will change related Singleton
> > pattern Class ).
> > But there are always higher priority tasks, so there is no time to
> > change all these singletons. Good news is that we have strictly
> > controlled the use of singletons in the new PRs, so there should be no
> > more new ones.
> >
> > Best,
> > ----------------
> > Yuan Tian
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 7:14 PM Christofer Dutz
> > <christofer.d...@c-ware.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > as I’m digging into IoTDB more and more, I noticed a quite excessive 
> > > usage of the Singleton pattern … some times even for things where it 
> > > doesn’t really make much sense. For example in SystemFileFactory, the 
> > > methods don’t really have much state and simply fire RuntimeExceptions if 
> > > fsType is initialized with HDFS.
> > >
> > > Singletons make it a bit tricky to run tests in parallel and to do 
> > > dynamic reloading of modules (like in OSGI). Most projects I’ve worked on 
> > > try to limit the use of singletons to an absolute minimum due to these 
> > > problems.
> > >
> > > I guess embedding IoTDB in an OSGI environment hasn’t been a use-case 
> > > yet, but I could imagine that random test failures while running tests in 
> > > parallel probably could have caused some issues.
> > >
> > > Was this a design decision that is based on some real-world necessity, or 
> > > for simplifying things during development?
> > > I don’t want to put too much effort into proposing cleaning up things, if 
> > > there was a conscious decision to do things otherwise.
> > >
> > > Chris
> > >

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