Github user nickwallen commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/metron/pull/1022#discussion_r190949109
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metron-platform/metron-elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/apache/metron/elasticsearch/writer/CachedFieldNameConverterFactory.java
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+package org.apache.metron.elasticsearch.writer;
+
+import com.github.benmanes.caffeine.cache.Cache;
+import com.github.benmanes.caffeine.cache.Caffeine;
+import org.apache.commons.lang.ClassUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.exception.ExceptionUtils;
+import org.apache.metron.common.configuration.writer.WriterConfiguration;
+import org.apache.metron.common.field.DeDotFieldNameConverter;
+import org.apache.metron.common.field.FieldNameConverter;
+import org.apache.metron.common.field.FieldNameConverters;
+import org.apache.metron.common.field.NoopFieldNameConverter;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+import java.lang.invoke.MethodHandles;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
+
+/**
+ * A {@link FieldNameConverterFactory} that is backed by a cache.
+ *
+ * <p>Each sensor type can use a different {@link FieldNameConverter}
implementation.
+ *
+ * <p>The {@link WriterConfiguration} allows a user to define the {@link
FieldNameConverter}
+ * that should be used for a given sensor type.
+ *
+ * <p>The {@link FieldNameConverter}s are maintained in a cache for a
fixed period of time
+ * after they are created. Once they expire, the {@link
WriterConfiguration} is used to
+ * reload the {@link FieldNameConverter}.
+ *
+ * <p>The user can change the {@link FieldNameConverter} in use at
runtime. A change
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The primary reason the logic was extracted into a separate class is because
the `ElasticsearchWriter` cannot be easily unit tested as it stands today. I
ran into tons of library conflicts when trying to do that.
Keeping it separate also will make it easier to push out similar logic to
other writers in the future; HDFS, Solr, should that be needed.
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