I can't remember where the 'gibberish' text provided by enum.term().text() comes from exacly, any more, and have no source code handy to check it for you.
However, the DateFilter modification that you are describing sounds acceptable. Would it be possible for you to submit it as a patch (diff -uN)? It would also be nice to provide a unit test for DateFilter, if we haven't got one already (I can't check now), in order to make sure that your modification doesn't break the existing behaviour. Could you do that, please?
Once the issue/bug causing the unexpected behavior to occur has been resolved I'll be glad to.
Finally, before we apply your changes, we should see whether this modification really has any significant impact on the performance. I assume you will test this with some large data sets yourself, so please share your results.
Of course. My initial testing was spurring by the fact that a search on my sample dataset (~450,000 usenet messages) was taking > 6 seconds to perform if you specified a date range but < 250 ms if you didn't. I've worked around most of the issue by caching the bitset results of filters for reuse however the initial query for that date range (yesterday, last week, last 90 days, etc) still requires the 6+ seconds. Since the consumer view of our application only allows 'after' queries the date filter changes I was testing should improve performance. Once the issue/bug has been resolved I'll provide sample timings for before/after cases.
Regards,
Bruce Ritchie
All,
I've been investigating a possible improvement to the DateFilter and
have run into an issue I believe is a bug with Lucene 1.3 RC1.
Synopsis:
I'm trying to add a clause into the bits(IndexReader reader) of the
DateFilter class to eliminate a compareTo() test and improve performance. This should be allowed
whenever the DateFilter has a start date but no end date since reader.terms(term) says all terms
after the given term will be greater than those that precede it. Thus, if we see that the endDate
is equal to DateField.MAX_DATE_STRING() we should be able to skip the "while
(enum.term().compareTo(stop) <= 0)" test and improve the performance of the filter with a large document
set.
/** Returns an enumeration of all terms after a given term. The enumeration is ordered by Term.compareTo(). Each term is greater than all that precede it in the enumeration. */ public abstract TermEnum terms(Term t) throws IOException;
Problem:
The above contract does not seem to be true in my testing. The
modified DateFilter.bits(..) method attached seems to show that enum.next() will indeed return a term
that is less than all terms preceeding it in the enumeration.
With my current index I create a DateFilter via filter = new
DateFilter.After("creationDate", afterDate); where afterDate is set to Sept 07 00:00:00 EDT 2003
The output from my debugging statement is as follows:
setting bit enabled for doc 466305, date Sun Sep 07 00:00:02 EDT 2003, term text was 0dkaji5zk setting bit enabled for doc 466306, date Sun Sep 07 00:00:05 EDT 2003, term text was 0dkaji8aw setting bit enabled for doc 466620, date Sun Sep 07 00:00:13 EDT 2003, term text was 0dkajieh4 setting bit enabled for doc 472854, date Sun Sep 07 00:00:15 EDT 2003, term text was 0dkajig0o setting bit enabled for doc 472855, date Sun Sep 07 00:00:27 EDT 2003, term text was 0dkajipa0 setting bit enabled for doc 467844, date Sun Sep 07 00:00:58 EDT 2003, term text was 0dkajjd74 <snipped for bevity) setting bit enabled for doc 474111, date Sun Sep 07 17:37:52 EDT 2003, term text was 0dkblajr4 setting bit enabled for doc 474112, date Sun Sep 07 17:38:01 EDT 2003, term text was 0dkblaqp4 setting bit enabled for doc 474044, date Sun Sep 07 17:38:09 EDT 2003, term text was 0dkblawvc setting bit enabled for doc 474091, date Sun Sep 07 18:00:57 EDT 2003, term text was 0dkbm48fr setting bit enabled for doc 84, date Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 EST 1969, term text was 10 setting bit enabled for doc 85, date Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 EST 1969, term text was 10 setting bit enabled for doc 86, date Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 EST 1969, term text was 10 <and so on and so forth>
From the above debug logging you can see that enum.next() has
returned a TermEnum with a text of '10'. While this is logically greater than or equal to the preceeding
text according to String.compareTo(), I'm uncertain as to where the '10' text is coming
from. As an example, document #86 returns in another search the following:
setting bit enabled for doc 86, date Fri Jul 11 17:08:43 EDT 2003, term text was 0di0opnjs
If someone could either point me in the correct direction and/or
isolate the bug it would be appreciated.
Regards,
Bruce Ritchie
public BitSet bits(IndexReader reader) throws IOException {
BitSet bits = new BitSet(reader.maxDoc()); TermEnum enum = reader.terms(new Term(field, start)); TermDocs termDocs = reader.termDocs(); if (enum.term() == null) { return bits; }
try { // we don't need to compare every term in this case // doing so is a waste of cycles if (end.equals(DateField.MAX_DATE_STRING())) { do { termDocs.seek(enum.term()); try { while (termDocs.next()) { System.err.println("setting bit enabled for doc " + termDocs.doc() + ", date " + DateField.stringToDate(enum.term().text()) + ", term text was " + enum.term().text()); bits.set(termDocs.doc()); } } finally { termDocs.close(); } } while (enum.next()); } else { Term stop = new Term(field, end); while (enum.term().compareTo(stop) <= 0) { termDocs.seek(enum.term()); try { while (termDocs.next()) { bits.set(termDocs.doc()); } } finally { termDocs.close(); }
if (!enum.next()) { break; } } } } finally { enum.close(); }
return bits; }
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