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Christian Kohlschütter commented on LUCENE-2133:
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bq. I know the FieldComparator class is ugly, but I'm not sure we should pull
the rug by putting the impls in a new package. On the other hand, its not
likely to affect many and it was experimental - so its a tough call. Its a lot
of classes in there
I think it makes sense to move the stuff into another package because
o.a.l.search is already filled with a lot of classes. Since there are no
package-level-protection dependencies to o.a.l.search, I think it does not hurt
either.
bq. I'm also not sure if fields is the right package name? And do the Filters
belong in that package?
I couldn't really come up with a better name. It's all about the fields somehow
(caches, comparators and value parsers).
bq. Also, almost a non issue, but extending a deprecated class is going to be
an ultra minor back compat break when its removed. Not likely a problem though.
But we might put a note to that affect to be clear. It is almost self
documenting anyway though
Yes. I thought it's better to make it as clear as possibe.
Also, almost a non issue, but extending a deprecated class is going to be an
ultra minor back compat break when its removed. Not likely a problem though.
But we might put a note to that affect to be clear. It is almost self
documenting anyway though
bq. Rather then changing the tests to the new classes, we should prob copy them
and make new ones - then remove them when the deprecations are removed.
Yes, good idea. This way we can test the old and the new behaviour at once.
Maybe it is enough to add new test methods to the same class?
bq. Also, you should pull the author tag(s) - all credit is through JIRA and
Changes. (I only see it like once, so I bet thats eclipse?)
Sorry, Eclipse defaults. I thought I had removed all of them.
bq. I haven't done a thorough review it all, but this is pretty great stuff to
appear so complete and out of nowhere
Yes, it also just came over me the last weekend ;-)
I will make a new patch tomorrow (CET time) with the new test cases
incorporated.
> [PATCH] IndexCache: Refactoring of FieldCache, FieldComparator, SortField
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>
> Key: LUCENE-2133
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2133
> Project: Lucene - Java
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Search
> Affects Versions: 2.9.1, 3.0
> Reporter: Christian Kohlschütter
> Attachments: LUCENE-2133-complete.patch, LUCENE-2133.patch,
> LUCENE-2133.patch
>
>
> Hi all,
> up to the current version Lucene contains a conceptual flaw, that is the
> FieldCache. The FieldCache is a singleton which is supposed to cache certain
> information for every IndexReader that is currently open
> The FieldCache is flawed because it is incorrect to assume that:
> 1. one IndexReader instance equals one index. In fact, there can be many
> clones (of SegmentReader) or decorators (FilterIndexReader) which all access
> the very same data.
> 2. the cache information remains valid for the lifetime of an IndexReader. In
> fact, some IndexReaders may be reopen()'ed and thus they may contain
> completely different information.
> 3. all IndexReaders need the same type of cache. In fact, because of the
> limitations imposed by the singleton construct there was no implementation
> other than FieldCacheImpl.
> Furthermore, FieldCacheImpl and FieldComparator are bloated by several static
> inner-classes that could be moved to package level.
> There have been a few attempts to improve FieldCache, namely LUCENE-831,
> LUCENE-1579 and LUCENE-1749, but the overall situation remains the same:
> There is a central registry for assigning Caches to IndexReader instances.
> I now propose the following:
> 1. Obsolete FieldCache and FieldCacheKey and provide index-specific,
> extensible cache instances ("IndexCache"). IndexCaches provide common caching
> functionality for all IndexReaders and may be extended (for example,
> SegmentReader would have a SegmentReaderIndexCache and store different data
> than a regular IndexCache)
> 2. Add the index-specific field cache (IndexFieldCache) to the IndexCache.
> IndexFieldCache is an interface just like FieldCache and may support
> different implementations.
> 3. The IndexCache instances may be flushed/closed by the associated
> IndexReaders whenever necessary.
> 4. Obsolete FieldCacheSanityChecker because no more "insanities" are expected
> (or at least, they do not impact the overall performance)
> 5. Refactor FieldCacheImpl and the related classes (FieldComparator,
> SortField)
> I have provided an patch which takes care of all these issues. It passes all
> JUnit tests.
> The patch is quite large, admittedly, but the change required several
> modifications and some more to preserve backwards-compatibility.
> Backwards-compatibility is preserved by moving some of the updated
> functionality in the package org.apache.lucene.search.fields (field
> comparators and parsers, SortField) while adding wrapper instances and
> keeping old code in org.apache.lucene.search.
> In detail and besides the above mentioned improvements, the following is
> provided:
> 1. An IndexCache specific for SegmentReaders. The two ThreadLocals are moved
> from SegmentReader to SegmentReaderIndexCache.
> 2. A housekeeping improvement to CloseableThreadLocal. Now delegates the
> close() method to all registered instances by calling an onClose() method
> with the threads' instances.
> 3. Analyzer.close now may throw an IOException (this already is covered by
> java.io.Closeable).
> 4. A change to Collector: allow IndexCache instead of IndexReader being
> passed to setNextReader()
> 5. SortField's numeric types have been replaced by direct assignments of
> FieldComparatorSource. This removes the "switch" statements and the
> possibility to throw IllegalArgumentExceptions because of unsupported type
> values.
> The following classes have been deprecated and replaced by new classes in
> org.apache.lucene.search.fields:
> - FieldCacheRangeFilter (=> IndexFieldCacheRangeFilter)
> - FieldCacheTermsFilter (=> IndexFieldCacheTermsFilter)
> - FieldCache (=> IndexFieldCache)
> - FieldCacheImpl (=> IndexFieldCacheImpl)
> - all classes in FieldCacheImpl (=> several package-level classes)
> - all subclasses of FieldComparator (=> several package-level classes)
> Final notes:
> - The patch would be simpler if no backwards compatibility was necessary. The
> Lucene community has to decide which classes/methods can immediately be
> removed, which ones later, which not at all. Whenever new classes depend on
> the old ones, an appropriate notice exists in the javadocs.
> - The patch introduces a new, deprecated class
> IndexFieldCacheSanityChecker.java which is just there for testing purposes,
> to show that no sanity checks are necessary any longer. This class may be
> removed at any time.
> - I expect that the patch does not impact performance. On the contrary, as
> the patch removes a few unnecessary checks we might even see a slight
> speedup. No benchmarking has been done so far, though.
> - I have tried to preserve the existing functionality wherever possible and
> to focus on the class/method structure only. We certainly may improve the
> caches' behavior, but this out of scope for this patch.
> - The refactoring finally makes the high duplication of code visible: For all
> supported atomic types (byte, double, float, int, long, short) three classes
> each are required: *Cache, *Comparator and *Parser. I think that further
> simplification might be possible (maybe using Java generics?), but I guess
> the current patch is large enough for now.
> Cheers,
> Christian
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