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Hoss Man commented on LUCENE-4025:
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isn't this exactly why things like the ExecutorService and/or Future APIs
exist? let the caller decide if they want the methods they call to be executed
in the current thread or as part of a thread pool and/or block until the logic
is executed (with a possible time limit)
> ReferenceManager.maybeRefresh should allow the caller to block
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: LUCENE-4025
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-4025
> Project: Lucene - Java
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: core/search
> Reporter: Shai Erera
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 4.0
>
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> ReferenceManager.maybeRefresh() returns a boolean today, specifying whether
> the maybeRefresh logic was executed by the caller or not. If it's false, it
> means that another thread is currently refreshing and the call returns
> immediately.
> I think that that's inconvenient to the caller. I.e., if you wanted to do
> something like:
> {code}
> writer.commit();
> searcherManager.maybeRefresh();
> searcherManager.acquire();
> {code}
> It'd be better if you could guarantee that when the maybeRefresh() call
> returned, the follow on acquire() will return a refreshed IndexSearcher. Even
> if you omit the commit instruction, it'd be good if you can guarantee that.
> I don't quite see the benefit of having the caller thread not block if
> there's another thread currently refreshing. In, I believe, most cases, you'd
> anyway have just one thread calling maybeRefresh(). Even if not, the only
> benefit of not blocking is if you have commit() followed by maybeRefresh()
> logic done by some threads, while other threads acquire searchers - maybe
> then you wouldn't care if another thread is currently doing the refresh?
> Actually, I tend to think that not blocking is buggy? I mean, what if two
> threads do commit() + maybeRefresh(). The first thread finishes commit,
> enters maybeRefresh(), acquires the lock and reopens the Reader. Then the
> second thread does its commit(), enters maybeRefresh, fails to obtain the
> lock and exits. Its changes won't be exposed by SM until the next
> maybeRefresh() is called.
> So it looks to me like current logic may be buggy in that sense?
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