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[jira] Updated: (LUCENE-623) RAMDirectory.close() should have a
comment about not releasing any resources
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-623?page=all ]
Nadav Har'El updated LUCENE-623:
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Attachment: ramdirectory.diff
I propose a trivial patch, which does two very simple things:
1. RAMDirectory.close(), instead of being a no-op, sets files=null. This allows the garbage collector to collect all the memory that was used for this RAMDirectory (this is the best we can do in Java).
2. Make the documentation more explicit, from "Closes the store to future operations." to "Closes the store to future operations, releasing associated memory."
Note that now, after a close(), any operations on the RAMDirectory will likely result in a NullPointerException. I don't think this matters, as the documentation clearly says that after a close() you're not allowed to operate on this object.
> RAMDirectory.close() should have a comment about not releasing any resources
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> Key: LUCENE-623
> URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-623
> Project: Lucene - Java
> Type: Improvement
> Components: Store
> Versions: 1.9
> Reporter: Heng Mei
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: ramdirectory.diff
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> I wrongly assumed that calling RAMDirectory.close() would free up the memory occupied by the RAMDirectory.
> It might be helpful to add a javadoc comment that warns users that RAMDirectory.close() is a no-op, since it might be a common assumption that close() would release resources.
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