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Shai Erera updated LUCENE-3102:
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    Component/s:     (was: contrib/*)
                 modules/grouping

> Few issues with CachingCollector
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>                 Key: LUCENE-3102
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3102
>             Project: Lucene - Java
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: modules/grouping
>            Reporter: Shai Erera
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 3.2, 4.0
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>         Attachments: LUCENE-3102.patch, LUCENE-3102.patch
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> CachingCollector (introduced in LUCENE-1421) has few issues:
> # Since the wrapped Collector may support out-of-order collection, the 
> document IDs cached may be out-of-order (depends on the Query) and thus 
> replay(Collector) will forward document IDs out-of-order to a Collector that 
> may not support it.
> # It does not clear cachedScores + cachedSegs upon exceeding RAM limits
> # I think that instead of comparing curScores to null, in order to determine 
> if scores are requested, we should have a specific boolean - for clarity
> # This check "if (base + nextLength > maxDocsToCache)" (line 168) can be 
> relaxed? E.g., what if nextLength is, say, 512K, and I cannot satisfy the 
> maxDocsToCache constraint, but if it was 10K I would? Wouldn't we still want 
> to try and cache them?
> Also:
> * The TODO in line 64 (having Collector specify needsScores()) -- why do we 
> need that if CachingCollector ctor already takes a boolean "cacheScores"? I 
> think it's better defined explicitly than implicitly?
> * Let's introduce a factory method for creating a specialized version if 
> scoring is requested / not (i.e., impl the TODO in line 189)
> * I think it's a useful collector, which stands on its own and not specific 
> to grouping. Can we move it to core?
> * How about using OpenBitSet instead of int[] for doc IDs?
> ** If the number of hits is big, we'd gain some RAM back, and be able to 
> cache more entries
> ** NOTE: OpenBitSet can only be used for in-order collection only. So we can 
> use that if the wrapped Collector does not support out-of-order
> * Do you think we can modify this Collector to not necessarily wrap another 
> Collector? We have such Collector which stores (in-memory) all matching doc 
> IDs + scores (if required). Those are later fed into several processes that 
> operate on them (e.g. fetch more info from the index etc.). I am thinking, we 
> can make CachingCollector *optionally* wrap another Collector and then 
> someone can reuse it by setting RAM limit to unlimited (we should have a 
> constant for that) in order to simply collect all matching docs + scores.
> * I think a set of dedicated unit tests for this class alone would be good.
> That's it so far. Perhaps, if we do all of the above, more things will pop up.

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