Update
======

I have just pushed some commits that fix several bugs in the Lucene.Net.Codecs 
project (all 452 tests pass most of the time, a few random failures) and fix 
all but 4 of the failing tests in Lucene.Net.Core.


Fix for Test Context
-------------------------

For now, I have added method override stubs to each subclass in order to add 
the [Test] attribute, so NUnit will run them in the correct context. I did that 
on all of the superclass tests except for the ones in QueryParser (since Itamar 
mentioned he would be working in that area). Itamar, you will probably need to 
follow suit to get all of the QP tests to pass - namely with the 
QueryParserTestBase and TestQueryParser classes.

I have carefully put all of these changes into a single commit so it can be 
reverted easily, if this solution doesn't happen to be compatible with xUnit: 
https://github.com/apache/lucenenet/commit/2a79edea6359e1ee1f83269cc7dc3ef2753ebf2c.
 Hopefully that makes life easier for @conniey.

@Itamar, let me know when this is completed on your end so I can do a double 
revert and squash the test stubs from QueryParser into an all-inclusive 
revert-able commit.

We can now correctly see how many tests we have in the core. Currently there 
are 2730 - it seems we are still missing 720 tests, assuming they all were for 
something port-able.


Remaining Tests
---------------------

Next I plan to work on locating any tests that we have missed (starting in the 
core). It seems these fall into several categories:

1. Tests that have not yet been ported.
2. Tests that have been partially ported that have not been added to the 
project.
3. Tests that have been ported, but are missing the [Test] attribute.
4. Tests in classes that have been ported that have been commented out 
(presumably because at the time they were ported the dependencies did not yet 
exist).
5. Tests that have been Ignored in .NET that were not in Java.
6. Tests that have NUnit Assume.That() logic that depends on some non-existant 
JRE condition, so they are not running in .NET.

I'll make a quick effort to get them to pass, but the main goal will be to 
ensure they all can run and are included in the project. Just a heads up that 
the number of test failures is likely to increase on this pass (but the number 
of bugs will likely decrease).


Failing Core Tests
-----------------------

I have looked into the remaining tests somewhat. There are 2 issues that I need 
some input on to solve.


TestRamUsageEstimator.TestSanity()

Java Lucene uses a JRE-specific API to determine how much header size to add on 
each field. This makes the estimates higher in Java. But more importantly, this 
test is failing because the estimate for a real string instance is coming back 
as the same size as its shallow size (16 bytes in this case) - it needs to be 
at least 1 byte more than that for the test to pass. In Java (at least in a 64 
bit environment), there are an extra 4 bytes being added for each field.

Technically, there is a way to get these numbers from .NET, but it involves 
calling undocumented APIs using pointers and will likely be different from one 
.NET version to the next (a bad idea for a project that needs to support 
multiple .NET versions). The only solution I can think of is to hard code in an 
extra 4 bytes for 64 bit (and most likely 2 bytes for 32 bit) in order to make 
the numbers for the instances larger than their shallow size. I suppose the 
alternative would be to either comment out the string test or change it to >= 
make it pass. Thoughts? Alternatives?


TestNumericDocValuesUpdates.TestUpdateOldSegments()

I discovered what the issue is here (normally that is the hard part), but it 
seems that the proper solution is going to be a major task. The NamedSPILoader 
(backed by SPIClassIterator) in Java Lucene is used as a service locator to 
load classes throughout the project. In the Codec abstract class, it is used to 
load up the codec for the context it is used in. However, our port of the 
NamedSPILoader simply loads all of the classes from the current AppDomain 
without any way to order them or override them.

The problem is that in Lucene, this was meant to be an extension point. And 
this particular test (and probably many more of them) uses that extension point 
to change the codec to a Mock from the test framework. This line from 
TestRuleSetupAndRestoreClassEnv pretty much sums up what the issue is:

> Debug.Assert(Codec is Lucene42RWCodec, "fix your classpath to have 
> tests-framework.jar before lucene-core.jar");

Basically, it is using a configuration file to order the classes that are 
loaded so the test mocks take priority over the built-in codecs.

Just fixing the test could be done by making the static NamedSPILoader variable 
in the Codec class internal and swapping in a test double. However, that 
doesn't solve the bigger issue that Lucene.Net is missing its extensibility for 
anyone who wants to write their own codec (or tap into one of the other 
extensibility points). I guess the bigger question is how important will it be 
for anyone to extend Lucene codecs or inject dependencies into Analyzer 
factories? There doesn’t appear to be any more extensibility than that in 
Lucene 4.8.0, but that could change in more recent or future versions of Lucene.


CI Builds
-----------

Not working. Can someone look into that please?


Thanks,
Shad Storhaug (NightOwl888)



-----Original Message-----
From: Shad Storhaug 
Sent: Wednesday, October 5, 2016 8:23 PM
To: [email protected]
Cc: Connie Yau; '[email protected]'
Subject: RE: Remaining Work/Priorities

> Analysis.ICU (Depends on ICU4j) hopefully we can remove the ICU DLLs from the 
> analysis.commons module?

Just for clarification, these are two entirely different things in Java. 
Analysis.Common (Analysis.Collator and Analysis.Th) depends on parts of Java:

import java.text.BreakIterator;
import java.text.Collator;
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.RuleBasedCollator;

Highlighter.PostingsHighlighter and Highlighter.VectorHighlight also depend on 
parts of Java:

import java.text.BreakIterator;
import java.text.CharacterIterator;

Analysis.ICU depends on a separate (icu4j) package:

import com.ibm.icu.text.Normalizer;
import com.ibm.icu.text.Normalizer2;
import com.ibm.icu.text.Transliterator;
import com.ibm.icu.text.Replaceable;
import com.ibm.icu.text.Transliterator;
import com.ibm.icu.text.UTF16;
import com.ibm.icu.text.UnicodeSet;
import com.ibm.icu.text.FilteredNormalizer2;
import com.ibm.icu.text.Collator;
import com.ibm.icu.text.RuleBasedCollator;
import com.ibm.icu.util.ULocale;
import com.ibm.icu.text.RawCollationKey;

That said, icu4j DOES have Collator and RuleBasedCollator classes, but it DOES 
NOT have a BreakIterator or CharacterIterator class. It is unclear whether the 
Collator from icu4j would work as a replacement for the one in core Java.

When I was digging through the JDK code, I noticed that BreakIterator and 
RuleBasedCollator have a lot of common ICU dependencies there, so even if the 
RuleBasedCollator from icu4j is compatible, it might make sense for us to port 
the one from Java anyway so we are dealing with the same shared dependencies in 
Analysis.Common.

Once we port over the classes from the Java JDK, we will be able to eliminate 
our current ICU4NET dependency (and the platform issues that come with it). 
That said, porting over those pieces could take considerable work. In the 
interim it might make sense to make separate projects/NuGet packages to isolate 
the areas that depend on BreakIterator, CharacterIterator, and 
RuleBasedCollator so the rest can be released for wide/cross-platform use. 
Perhaps we can even make a basic (scaled down) BreakIterator for Highlighter 
that breaks on spaces between words and punctuation between sentences, which 
wouldn't work for Thai, but would work for most other languages.

Porting the (icu4j) package is another complete ball of yarn, we should take a 
look at (https://github.com/sillsdev/icu-dotnet) to see if there is enough 
overlap there to power Analysis.ICU (offhand it looks as though some classes 
are missing, though). It is a wrapper around the C library - it may be that we 
just need to port more of it to get all of the pieces we need.

Speaking of Collation, @ChristopherHaws have you made any more progress on 
Analysis.Collation? Were you able to determine if icu-dotnet's collator will 
make the tests pass?

> I'm on it QueryParser.Flexible

Great. The TimeZone probably just needs more research to work out how to 
utilize (in order to implement the failing test). Also, FYI MSDN's 
recommendation 
(https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.timezone(v=vs.110).aspx) is to 
use TimeZoneInfo rather than TimeZone (I noticed that several of the tests were 
recently modified to use TimeZone rather than TimeZoneInfo).

As for the culture, in .NET I am pretty sure that we need to pass it as a 
parameter to another overload of `QueryParser.Parse` rather than making it a 
property of QueryParser. But we can deal with that in one step after you have 
finished porting.

--

Shad Storhaug (NightOwl888)

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of Itamar Syn-Hershko
Sent: Wednesday, October 5, 2016 5:28 AM
To: [email protected]
Cc: Connie Yau
Subject: Re: Remaining Work/Priorities

Awesome, thanks for all the hard work Shad!

Our first priority should be fixing all remaining tests - in particular the one 
in Core. We should be ready to release and stamp our builds as 100% stable. As 
you mentioned, this could be an infrastructure issue - hopefully *Connie *can 
give a status update on her effort on the switch to xUnit?

With regards to Modules, here's an updated breakdown based on your email + 
forgotten pieces + my comments:

*Ported:*
Lucene.Net (Core) - 15 failing / 1989 total Lucene.Net.Analysis.Common - 0 
failing / 1445 total Lucene.Net.Classification - 0 failing / 9 total 
Lucene.Net.Expressions - 0 failing / 94 total Lucene.Net.Facet - (including 
#188 will be) 0 failing / 152 total Lucene.Net.Join - 0 failing / 27 total 
Lucene.Net.Memory - 0 failing / 10 total Lucene.Net.Misc - 2 failing / 42 total 
Lucene.Net.Queries - 2 failing / 96 total Lucene.Net.QueryParser - 1 failing / 
203 total Lucene.Net.Suggest - 0 failing / 142 total

We should do a second pass on the pieces we marked as ported, just to make sure 
the port is full and we didn't leave anything behind :)

*Need to be ported:*
Highlighter (Depends on Collator (which is still being ported) and 
BreakIterator (which we don't have a solution that works in .NET core yet)) 
Spatial (has 3rd party libraries that need to be updates) Spatial4n 
(https://github.com/synhershko/Spatial4N) needs to be brought up to speed with 
spatial4j, dependencies of which may cause some issues....
Codecs
Partially ported, mostly the tests weren't ported Grouping Not urgent, but 
provides nice functionality that users will probably like

The only part with dependencies seems to be the spatial module - I will have a 
look there soon if you don't get to that before I do.

*Can wait* - some modules are less frequently used, we should stabilize and 
release first and then work on them based on demand Analysis.ICU (Depends on 
ICU4j) hopefully we can remove the ICU DLLs from the analysis.commons module? I 
keep getting reports on some issues they are causing Analysis.Kuromoji 
Analysis.Morfologik (Depends on Morfologik) Analysis.Phonetic (Depends on 
Apache Commons) Apache commons is mostly helper libraries, so there's probably 
not real dependency just lots of replacement Analysis.SmartCN Analysis.Stempel 
(currently in progress) Analysis.UIMA (Depends on Tagger, uimaj-core, 
WhiteSpaceTokenizer) Demo while important because can help newbies, we can do 
better by providing docs and real world examples. I'm on it QueryParser.Flexible

*No need to port* - neither are needed in our context Benchmark (many 
dependencies) Replicator (many dependencies) Sandbox (Depends on Apache Jakarta)

Once all modules are ported and all tests are passing, I think we should get 
two more items fixed before an official release:

1. .NET Core support - I'm not clear on the status of it at the moment. We 
probably want to have it in for the release.

2. Public API Inconsistencies. We can discuss what should be done and what not 
when we get to that stage. Some are an obvious "fixme" but some will break code 
compatibility with Java I think we should avoid.

One last note - *Wyatt*, do we know why there are no CI builds lately?

--

Itamar Syn-Hershko
http://code972.com | @synhershko <https://twitter.com/synhershko> Freelance 
Developer & Consultant Lucene.NET committer and PMC member

On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 10:01 PM, Shad Storhaug <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I just wanted to open this discussion to talk about the work remaining 
> to be done on Lucene.Net version 4.8.0. We are nearly there, but that 
> doesn't mean we don't still need help!
>
>
> FAILING TESTS
> -------------------
>
> We now have over 5000 passing tests and as soon as pull request #188 (
> https://github.com/apache/lucenenet/pull/188) is merged, by my count 
> we have only 20 (actual) failing tests. Here is the breakdown by project:
>
> Lucene.Net (Core) - 15 failing / 1989 total Lucene.Net.Analysis.Common
> - 0 failing / 1445 total Lucene.Net.Classification - 0 failing / 9 
> total Lucene.Net.Expressions - 0 failing / 94 total Lucene.Net.Facet - 
> (including #188 will be) 0 failing / 152 total Lucene.Net.Join - 0 
> failing / 27 total Lucene.Net.Memory - 0 failing / 10 total 
> Lucene.Net.Misc - 2 failing / 42 total Lucene.Net.Queries - 2 failing 
> / 96 total Lucene.Net.QueryParser - 1 failing / 203 total 
> Lucene.Net.Suggest - 0 failing / 142 total
>
> The reason why I said ACTUAL tests above is because I recently 
> discovered that many of the "failures" that are being reported are 
> false negatives (in fact, the VS2015 NUnit test runner shows there are
> 135 failing tests total and 902 tests total that don't belong to any 
> project). Most NUnit 2.6 test runners do not correctly run tests in 
> shared abstract classes with the correct context (test setup) to make 
> them pass. These out-of-context runs add several additional minutes to the 
> test run.
>
> As an experiment, I upgraded to NUnit 3.4.1 and it helped the 
> situation somewhat - that is, it ran the tests in the correct context 
> and I was able to determine that we have more tests than the numbers 
> above and they are all succeeding. However, it also ran the tests in 
> an invalid context (that is, the context of the abstract class without 
> any setup) and some of them still showed as failures.
>
> I know @conniey is currently working on porting the tests over to xUnit.
> Hopefully, swapping test frameworks alone (or using some of the new 
> fancy test attributes) is enough to fix this issue. If not, we need to 
> find another solution - preferably one that can be applied to all of 
> the tests in abstract classes without too much effort or changing them 
> so they are too different from their Java counterpart.
>
> Remaining Pieces to Port
> ---------------------------------
>
> I took an inventory of the remaining pieces left to port a few days 
> ago and here is what that looks like (alphabetical order):
>
> 1. Analysis.ICU (Depends on ICU4j)
> 2. Analysis.Kuromoji
> 3. Analysis.Morfologik (Depends on Morfologik) 4. Analysis.Phonetic 
> (Depends on Apache Commons) 5. Analysis.SmartCN 6. Analysis.Stempel 
> (currently in progress) 7. Analysis.UIMA (Depends on Tagger, 
> uimaj-core, WhiteSpaceTokenizer) 8. Benchmark (many dependencies) 9.
> Demo 10. Highlighter (Depends on Collator (which is still being
> ported) and BreakIterator (which we don't have a solution that works 
> in .NET core yet)) 11. Replicator (many dependencies) 12. Sandbox 
> (Depends on Apache Jakarta) 13. Spatial (Already ported in #174 
> (https://github.com/apache/ lucenenet/pull/174), needs a recent 
> version of spatial4n) 14. QueryParser.Flexible
>
> Itamar, it would be helpful if you would be so kind as to organize 
> this list in terms of priority. It also couldn't hurt to update the 
> contributing documents 
> (https://github.com/apache/lucenenet/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md,
> and
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/LUCENENET/Current+Status
> with the latest information so anyone who wants to help out knows the 
> current status.
>
> Of course, it is the known status of dependencies that we need 
> clarification on. Which of these dependencies is known to be ported?
> Which of them are ported but are not up to date? Which of them are 
> known not to be ported, and which of them are unknown?
>
>
> Public API Inconsistencies
> ---------------------------------
>
> One thing that I have had my eye on for a while now is the 
> .NETification/consistency of the core API (that is, in the Lucene.Net 
> project). There are several issues that I would like to address including:
>
>
> 1.       Method names that are still camelCase
>
> 2.       Properties that should be methods (because they do a lot of
> processing or because they are non-deterministic)
>
> 3.       Methods that should be properties
>
> 4.       .Size() vs .Size vs .Count - should generally all be .Count in
> .NET
>
> 5.       Interfaces should begin with "I"
>
> 6.       Classes should not begin with "I" followed by another capital
> letter (for some reason some of them were named that way)
>
> 7.       .CharAt() should probably be this[]
>
> 8.       Generic types nested within generic types (which cause Visual
> Studio to crash when Intellisense tries to read them)
>
> ... and so on. The only thing is these are all sweeping changes that 
> will affect everyone helping out on Lucene.Net and anyone who is 
> currently using the beta. So, I just wanted to gather some input on 
> when the most appropriate time to begin working on these sweeping changes 
> would be?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Shad Storhaug (NightOwl888)
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

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