Le 6/11/12 3:21 PM, Garbage a écrit :

Von meinem iPad gesendet


But I am only able to return ONE entry, I didn't find or understand the concept 
how MULTIPLE entries can be returned. Can someone show me the right direction ?
The idea is to use a Cursor that maps around the partition and fetch the 
entries one by one.

The way the server works is that based on your filter, you select the right 
index to use to fetch the entries. There are may possibilities here :
- first, you may have to do a full scan (the filter is not selective enough, 
for instance). In this case, you don't use any index, you just use the 
MasterTable to get the entries. Now, for each entry you fetch, you'll have to 
filter them to see if it's a valid entry - or not.
- or you can select an index. You will fetch the index elements, and for each 
of them, fetch the associated entry.  Once done, you can check against the 
filter if the entry is valid - or not

In any case, the cursor is your friend here : it maps the next() operation on 
top of your index.

Now, if your Partition is a Btree, it's easier, as the AbstractBTreePartition 
class already handles everyting for you. If you don't inherit from this 
Abstract class, then it's way more complicated. I'll suggest you have a look at 
the AbstractBTreePartition to get a clue about how we process a search over a 
BTree based partition.
If I got you right I am to create my own cursor object which retrieves and 
stores the array with the items I want to deliver. The cursor then implements 
the next and get method in order to send the array one by one. But where is the 
cursor being called ?

It's called at the top level, as we write the entries one by one, waiting for the socket to be ready for a new write. The cursor does not have to do anything but to fetch the next entry when requested.
I tried to base my own partition on the abstract btree partition but what am I 
supposed to return from getRootId and getDefaultId and even worse from 
convertAndInit ?
The RootId is pretty simple : it's 0L.
The DefaultId is always 1L too.

The convertAndInit methid is pretty stupid (and I do think we will get rid of it soon). It basically transform an index from a "generic" form to a usable form. The rational is that when we initialize the server, we don't yet know the kind of backend we will use for a partition, so we created a dumb index containing the configuration needed to initialize the index in all the case. Then we initialize the backend, and we now can create the real index (I mean, the JdbmIndex if we have a JdbmPartition, an AvlIndex for AvlPartition, and an AcmeIndex for your AcmePartition).

Now, we have pretty much simplified the process, because we always know what kind of index we will have to create, so we create them immediately. Sadly, there is still one special index that requires some extra effort, this is the RdnIndex.

So, for instance, the JdbmPartition uses this kind of method :

    protected Index<?> convertAndInit( Index<?> index ) throws Exception
    {
        JdbmIndex<?> jdbmIndex;

// first, deal with the RdnIndex which is a bit specific. We will create a new one using the configuration put into the generic JdbmIndex

if ( index.getAttributeId().equals( ApacheSchemaConstants.APACHE_RDN_AT_OID ) )
        {
            jdbmIndex = new JdbmRdnIndex();
jdbmIndex.setAttributeId( ApacheSchemaConstants.APACHE_RDN_AT_OID );
            jdbmIndex.setCacheSize( index.getCacheSize() );
            jdbmIndex.setNumDupLimit( JdbmIndex.DEFAULT_DUPLICATE_LIMIT );
            jdbmIndex.setWkDirPath( index.getWkDirPath() );
        }
        else if ( index instanceof JdbmIndex<?> )
        {

// Then for each other index, as they are alreadt plain JdbmIndex, just use them and inject the workpath into it

            jdbmIndex = ( JdbmIndex<?> ) index;

            if ( jdbmIndex.getWkDirPath() == null )
            {
                jdbmIndex.setWkDirPath( partitionPath );
            }
        }
        else
        {

// Should never occur...

            LOG.debug( "Supplied index {} is not a JdbmIndex.  "
+ "Will create new JdbmIndex using copied configuration parameters.", index );
            jdbmIndex = new JdbmIndex( index.getAttributeId(), true );
            jdbmIndex.setCacheSize( index.getCacheSize() );
            jdbmIndex.setNumDupLimit( JdbmIndex.DEFAULT_DUPLICATE_LIMIT );
            jdbmIndex.setWkDirPath( index.getWkDirPath() );
        }

// last thing, we just initialize the index.

jdbmIndex.init( schemaManager, schemaManager.lookupAttributeTypeRegistry( index.getAttributeId() ) );

        return jdbmIndex;
    }

You should basically do the exact same thing.


Sorry for the beginner level questions but ApacheDS is quite complex and new to 
me.
meh... It's also complex to me, except that I'm working on it for now 7 years :/

Btw, we are likely to change many things to the partition in the next few months, as we have some problem with concurrency, so keep tuned.


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Regards,
Cordialement,
Emmanuel Lécharny
www.iktek.com

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