[jira] Updated: (LUCENE-1693) AttributeSource/TokenStream API improvements

["Uwe Schindler (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Uwe Schindler updated LUCENE-1693:
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    Attachment: LUCENE-1693.patch

Attached is a new patch to current trunk. I did a hard work to make it compatible to also test-tag (see the java-dev discussion last weekend: test-tag was not really testing against 2.4, the bw-branch was created in November from trunk, when the new TokenStream API was already committed):

- All tests core, contrib and tag pass correctly (and no changes to bw-branch needed!)
- Michaels latest TestCompatibility also passes
- All non-final and abstract Tokenizers implement both next(Token) and incrementToken() for maximum compatibility (but there are still problems mentioned above). This problems are always there and cannot be worked around, even with Michael's initial patch and at other places in Lucene, too (Filters, HitCollector).
- CachingTokenFilter, TeeTokenizer and SinkTokenizer and the corresponding tests are reverted to 2.4 API and deprecated. There is not yet an implementation in new classes using solely the new API available. This is the only thing on the TODO-list for this case. I suggest the following name: CachingAttributesFilter; but for TeeTokenizer and SinkTokenizer I have no idea :(

In my opinion, this is ready to commit and the non-deprecated Caching/Sink/Tee things could be a separate issue.

We also need to write some conclusion or howto for CHANGES.txt, mentioning the problems with the switch to the new API.

> AttributeSource/TokenStream API improvements
> --------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LUCENE-1693
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1693
>             Project: Lucene - Java
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Analysis
>            Reporter: Michael Busch
>            Assignee: Michael Busch
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 2.9
>
>         Attachments: LUCENE-1693.patch, LUCENE-1693.patch, LUCENE-1693.patch, LUCENE-1693.patch, LUCENE-1693.patch, LUCENE-1693.patch, LUCENE-1693.patch, lucene-1693.patch, TestCompatibility.java, TestCompatibility.java, TestCompatibility.java, TestCompatibility.java
>
>
> This patch makes the following improvements to AttributeSource and
> TokenStream/Filter:
> - removes the set/getUseNewAPI() methods (including the standard
>   ones). Instead by default incrementToken() throws a subclass of
>   UnsupportedOperationException. The indexer tries to call
>   incrementToken() initially once to see if the exception is thrown;
>   if so, it falls back to the old API.
> - introduces interfaces for all Attributes. The corresponding
>   implementations have the postfix 'Impl', e.g. TermAttribute and
>   TermAttributeImpl. AttributeSource now has a factory for creating
>   the Attribute instances; the default implementation looks for
>   implementing classes with the postfix 'Impl'. Token now implements
>   all 6 TokenAttribute interfaces.
> - new method added to AttributeSource:
>   addAttributeImpl(AttributeImpl). Using reflection it walks up in the
>   class hierarchy of the passed in object and finds all interfaces
>   that the class or superclasses implement and that extend the
>   Attribute interface. It then adds the interface->instance mappings
>   to the attribute map for each of the found interfaces.
> - AttributeImpl now has a default implementation of toString that uses
>   reflection to print out the values of the attributes in a default
>   formatting. This makes it a bit easier to implement AttributeImpl,
>   because toString() was declared abstract before.
> - Cloning is now done much more efficiently in
>   captureState. The method figures out which unique AttributeImpl
>   instances are contained as values in the attributes map, because
>   those are the ones that need to be cloned. It creates a single
>   linked list that supports deep cloning (in the inner class
>   AttributeSource.State). AttributeSource keeps track of when this
>   state changes, i.e. whenever new attributes are added to the
>   AttributeSource. Only in that case will captureState recompute the
>   state, otherwise it will simply clone the precomputed state and
>   return the clone. restoreState(AttributeSource.State) walks the
>   linked list and uses the copyTo() method of AttributeImpl to copy
>   all values over into the attribute that the source stream
>   (e.g. SinkTokenizer) uses. 
> The cloning performance can be greatly improved if not multiple
> AttributeImpl instances are used in one TokenStream. A user can
> e.g. simply add a Token instance to the stream instead of the individual
> attributes. Or the user could implement a subclass of AttributeImpl that
> implements exactly the Attribute interfaces needed. I think this
> should be considered an expert API (addAttributeImpl), as this manual
> optimization is only needed if cloning performance is crucial. I ran
> some quick performance tests using Tee/Sink tokenizers (which do
> cloning) and the performance was roughly 20% faster with the new
> API. I'll run some more performance tests and post more numbers then.
> Note also that when we add serialization to the Attributes, e.g. for
> supporting storing serialized TokenStreams in the index, then the
> serialization should benefit even significantly more from the new API
> than cloning. 
> Also, the TokenStream API does not change, except for the removal 
> of the set/getUseNewAPI methods. So the patches in LUCENE-1460
> should still work.
> All core tests pass, however, I need to update all the documentation
> and also add some unit tests for the new AttributeSource
> functionality. So this patch is not ready to commit yet, but I wanted
> to post it already for some feedback. 

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