CachedSqlEntityProcessor pre-warmed cache use case
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                 Key: SOLR-1787
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-1787
             Project: Solr
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: contrib - DataImportHandler
    Affects Versions: 1.5
         Environment: jdk 1.6.x, windows xp, tomcat 6.x
            Reporter: Michael Henson
            Priority: Minor
             Fix For: 1.5


The CachedSqlEntityProcessor currently builds a cache of rows it sees as it 
goes, so later requests for that same key can be served from data that has 
already been fetched. The primary query could be written to fetch all possible 
rows, which would then be set into the cache on the first request for a row. In 
that case the database would only receive another query when there is a cache 
miss. However, the query it would execute is the one that pulls all rows, 
negating any performance gain.

This patch adds the ability to configure behavior on cache miss with the 
"onCacheMiss" attribute on an "entity" tag in the data-config.xml file. The 
current behavior is the default, corresponding to the setting 
onCacheMiss="fill". Any other value explicitly given for onCacheMiss will cause 
cache misses to be ignored - no query will be made to the db to fulfill them.

I've encountered two cases where this capability is useful:

1. Relatively small datasets, such as category id -> category name mappings, 
which will not change during the course of indexing.
2. Queries which are heavy on db resources per-query, particularly if the query 
for an individual record is slow, and can't be fixed easily on the db side for 
whatever reason.


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