----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doğacan Güney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 11:25 PM

> On 6/8/07, Enzo Michelangeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
>> A more serious problem is that an implementation of equals() that returns
>> true if the two hashCodes are different violates the specifications of
>> Object.hashCode() :
>>
>> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html#hashCode()
>> "If two objects are equal according to the equals(Object) method, then
>> calling the hashCode method on each of the two objects must produce the 
>> same
>> integer result."
>
> We can just update Configuration.hashCode to calculate hash by summing
> hashCode's of all key,value pairs. This should make it equal,
> shouldn't it?

Sure, in fact it would be much better. I didn't mention it because it 
affects Hadoop, about the innards of which I know very little, and I was 
concerned about unforeseen side-effects. In that spirit (think global, act 
local ;-) ), we could also subclass org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration 
only for use by methods of PluginRepository, and override its hashCode() 
method instead of touching the original class.

> I think so too. When a map task ends and another begins, there will be
> no strong references to the configuration object of the previous map
> task, so it may be garbage-collected. Nicolas Lichtmaier has a patch
> for this to change WeakHashMap to a form of LRU map.
>
> BTW, this problem has been discussed before (most recently at
> http://www.nabble.com/Plugins-initialized-all-the-time ). There even
> is an open issue for this - NUTCH-356. I would suggest that we move
> our discussion there so that we can all work on this together and fix
> this once and for all. I will update the issue with the most recent
> discussions.

OK, I'll subscribe to nutch-dev as well.

Cheers --

Enzo


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