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Michael Busch updated LUCENE-1422:
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Attachment: lucene-1422.take2.patch
Thanks for your suggestions, Doug. It makes perfect sense to make getToken()
idempotent.
Also, addAttribute() should be idempotent, because a Token can have only one
instance
of the an attribute.
I changed prototypeToken() to getToken(), nextToken() to incrementToken and
actually
added the attribute logic to Token itself. That has some advantages, but also
the
following disadvantage. If people want to use the new API before 3.0, i. e.
before the
deprecated members of Token have been removed, and they want to use something
like the
CachingTokenFilter or Tee/Sink-TokenFilter, then caching is more expensive. The
reson
is that Token itself has members for positionIncrement, offsets, etc. but you
then also
have to add the appropriate attributes to Token to use the new API. But I think
this
drawback would be acceptable?
I also changed the way to add attributes to a Token:
{code:java}
protected final void addTokenAttributes() {
posIncrAtt = reusableToken.addAttribute(PositionIncrementAttribute.class);
}
{code}
The addTokenAttributes() method belongs to TokenStream and is called from
getToken()
only when a new Token instance was created, i. e. in its first call.
Note the signature of Token.addAttribute:
{code:java}
public <T extends Attribute> T addAttribute(Class<T> attClass);
{code}
Now you don't pass in an actual instance of *Attribute, but its class. The
method will
then create a new instance via reflection. This approach makes the
addAttribute()
method itself idempotent.
I changed all core tokenizers and filters to have an implementation of the new
API.
For backwards-compatibility I added a (deprecated) static setUseNewAPI() method
to
TokenStream. I also changed the DocumentsWriter to use the new API in case
useNewAPI==true;
I still have to do several things, including javadocs, testcases, hashcode(),
etc.
> New TokenStream API
> -------------------
>
> Key: LUCENE-1422
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1422
> Project: Lucene - Java
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Analysis
> Reporter: Michael Busch
> Assignee: Michael Busch
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 2.9
>
> Attachments: lucene-1422.patch, lucene-1422.take2.patch
>
>
> This is a very early version of the new TokenStream API that
> we started to discuss here:
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/lucene/java-dev/66227
> This implementation is a bit different from what I initially
> proposed in the thread above. I introduced a new class called
> AttributedToken, which contains the same termBuffer logic
> from Token. In addition it has a lazily-initialized map of
> Class<? extends Attribute> -> Attribute. Attribute is also a
> new class in a new package, plus several implementations like
> PositionIncrementAttribute, PayloadAttribute, etc.
> Similar to my initial proposal is the prototypeToken() method
> which the consumer (e. g. DocumentsWriter) needs to call.
> The token is created by the tokenizer at the end of the chain
> and pushed through all filters to the end consumer. The
> tokenizer and also all filters can add Attributes to the
> token and can keep references to the actual types of the
> attributes that they need to read of modify. This way, when
> boolean nextToken() is called, no casting is necessary.
> I added a class called TestNewTokenStreamAPI which is not
> really a test case yet, but has a static demo() method, which
> demonstrates how to use the new API.
> The reason to not merge Token and TokenStream into one class
> is that we might have caching (or tee/sink) filters in the
> chain that might want to store cloned copies of the tokens
> in a cache. I added a new class NewCachingTokenStream that
> shows how such a class could work. I also implemented a deep
> clone method in AttributedToken and a
> copyFrom(AttributedToken) method, which is needed for the
> caching. Both methods have to iterate over the list of
> attributes. The Attribute subclasses itself also have a
> copyFrom(Attribute) method, which unfortunately has to down-
> cast to the actual type. I first thought that might be very
> inefficient, but it's not so bad. Well, if you add all
> Attributes to the AttributedToken that our old Token class
> had (like offsets, payload, posIncr), then the performance
> of the caching is somewhat slower (~40%). However, if you
> add less attributes, because not all might be needed, then
> the performance is even slightly faster than with the old API.
> Also the new API is flexible enough so that someone could
> implement a custom caching filter that knows all attributes
> the token can have, then the caching should be just as
> fast as with the old API.
> This patch is not nearly ready, there are lot's of things
> missing:
> - unit tests
> - change DocumentsWriter to use new API
> (in backwards-compatible fashion)
> - patch is currently java 1.5; need to change before
> commiting to 2.9
> - all TokenStreams and -Filters should be changed to use
> new API
> - javadocs incorrect or missing
> - hashcode and equals methods missing in Attributes and
> AttributedToken
>
> I wanted to submit it already for brave people to give me
> early feedback before I spend more time working on this.
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