[jira] [Created] (APEXMALHAR-2197) TimeBasedPriorityQueue.removeLRU throws NoSuchElementException

["bright chen (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

bright chen created APEXMALHAR-2197:
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             Summary: TimeBasedPriorityQueue.removeLRU throws NoSuchElementException
                 Key: APEXMALHAR-2197
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/APEXMALHAR-2197
             Project: Apache Apex Malhar
          Issue Type: Bug
            Reporter: bright chen
            Assignee: bright chen


When there are lots of keys and large throughput, the following exception will be throw.
java.util.NoSuchElementException
	at java.util.TreeMap$PrivateEntryIterator.nextEntry(TreeMap.java:1113)
	at java.util.TreeMap$KeyIterator.next(TreeMap.java:1169)
	at org.apache.apex.malhar.lib.state.spillable.TimeBasedPriorityQueue.removeLRU(TimeBasedPriorityQueue.java:75)
	at org.apache.apex.malhar.lib.state.spillable.WindowBoundedMapCache.endWindow(WindowBoundedMapCache.java:119)
	at org.apache.apex.malhar.lib.state.spillable.SpillableByteArrayListMultimapImpl.endWindow(SpillableByteArrayListMultimapImpl.java:281)
	at com.datatorrent.benchmark.spillable.SpillableDSBenchmarkTest.testSpillableMutimap(SpillableDSBenchmarkTest.java:139)


The reason is as following:
In TimeBasedPriorityQueue.TimeWrapper<T>, when implement compareTo(), only compare by time. While in equals(), compare both time and key.

Generally, "compareTo() == 0” means “equals() == true”. But in TimeBasedPriorityQueue, compareTo() was used by “sortedTimestamp” and it would be OK only compare by time.
But it would cause problem in removeLRU() if lots of key written in same time. In this case, one time(even different key) is one entry of sortedTimestamp, but the counter and count was calculated by key.
So the counter could be much larger than the number of entry of sortedTimestamp. And NoSuchElementException would throw when reach the end of the iterator.


Solutions:
Add key as the less important factor could solve this problem. But probably need to limit key to support compareTo()

Another idea I think also work is use two maps, the benefit is don’t need to compare by key( only compare by time)
-  timeToKeys: multiple list map from time to keys
- keyToRecentTime: key to most recent time
implementation:
- upSert(T key): get time from keyToRecentTime map; if don’t have time, put (key, time) to both keyToRecentTime and  timeToKeys; if have time and time is different, remove key from timeToKeys, update keyToRecentTime
- removeLRU(int count): get time sortedTimestamp, and then get and remove keys from timeToKeys, and remove entry from keyToRecentTime.




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