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Robert Muir commented on LUCENE-1606:
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btw the unicode complexity i mention here is not just me being anal, its an
impedence mismatch between the automaton library using UTF-16 code unit
representation and the new flex api requiring valid UTF-8.
I am not trying to introduce complexity for no reason, here is an example:
{code}
RegExp re = new RegExp("(𩬅|𩬆)");
System.out.println(re.toAutomaton());
{code}
{noformat}
initial state: 0
state 0 [reject]:
\ud866 -> 2
state 1 [accept]:
state 2 [reject]:
\udf05-\udf06 -> 1
{noformat}
as you can see, the automaton library handles these characters correctly, but
as code units.
so its important not to seek to invalid locations when walking thru the DFA,
because these will be replaced by U+FFFD,
and terms could be skipped, or we go backwards, creating a loop.
Thats why i spent so much time on this.
> Automaton Query/Filter (scalable regex)
> ---------------------------------------
>
> Key: LUCENE-1606
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1606
> Project: Lucene - Java
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Search
> Reporter: Robert Muir
> Assignee: Robert Muir
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 3.1
>
> Attachments: automaton.patch, automatonMultiQuery.patch,
> automatonmultiqueryfuzzy.patch, automatonMultiQuerySmart.patch,
> automatonWithWildCard.patch, automatonWithWildCard2.patch,
> BenchWildcard.java, LUCENE-1606-flex.patch, LUCENE-1606-flex.patch,
> LUCENE-1606.patch, LUCENE-1606.patch, LUCENE-1606.patch, LUCENE-1606.patch,
> LUCENE-1606.patch, LUCENE-1606.patch, LUCENE-1606.patch, LUCENE-1606.patch,
> LUCENE-1606.patch, LUCENE-1606.patch, LUCENE-1606.patch, LUCENE-1606.patch,
> LUCENE-1606_nodep.patch
>
>
> Attached is a patch for an AutomatonQuery/Filter (name can change if its not
> suitable).
> Whereas the out-of-box contrib RegexQuery is nice, I have some very large
> indexes (100M+ unique tokens) where queries are quite slow, 2 minutes, etc.
> Additionally all of the existing RegexQuery implementations in Lucene are
> really slow if there is no constant prefix. This implementation does not
> depend upon constant prefix, and runs the same query in 640ms.
> Some use cases I envision:
> 1. lexicography/etc on large text corpora
> 2. looking for things such as urls where the prefix is not constant (http://
> or ftp://)
> The Filter uses the BRICS package (http://www.brics.dk/automaton/) to convert
> regular expressions into a DFA. Then, the filter "enumerates" terms in a
> special way, by using the underlying state machine. Here is my short
> description from the comments:
> The algorithm here is pretty basic. Enumerate terms but instead of a
> binary accept/reject do:
>
> 1. Look at the portion that is OK (did not enter a reject state in the
> DFA)
> 2. Generate the next possible String and seek to that.
> the Query simply wraps the filter with ConstantScoreQuery.
> I did not include the automaton.jar inside the patch but it can be downloaded
> from http://www.brics.dk/automaton/ and is BSD-licensed.
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