On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Pete wrote:
Ok, so if I have some code that manages the lifespan of a Lucene builtin OR
Python extension (we're all duck-typers here), how is it supposed to know
whether to call finalize or not?
Though, hmm, if I'm reading correctly, I could just do:
try:
lucene_or_python_obj.finalize()
except AttributeError:
pass # must have been a pure lucene object
I guess that's ok. Though it'd be really nice if you found a solution to
automagically manage things without the explicit finalize()... weakrefs
maybe?
Did you look at test/test_PythonDirectory.py ?
In there you can see that the way it's done is by keeping track of the
python extension instances being allocated. Java never allocates these, you
do, so you can keep track of these objects and finalize() them "at some
point" of your choice.
Yes, of course, this is (way) less than ideal and needs a better solution.
But it's better than leaking in the meantime, until a better solution is
found and implemented.
Currently, all I can think of is a thread that runs every few seconds and
that looks at all such Python extension instances. When it finds one that is
not referred to by any code other than the Java wrapper itself (and a global
list of such extensions), it would replace the java reference preventing the
java side from being GC'ed with a Java weak reference allowing the java side
to be GC'ed once Java's GC made the same determination, finalize() to be
invoked by the Java GC and finally the Python side to be decref'd down to 0
and freed. I don't like this daemon thread idea very much but if I (or this
list) can't come up with a better idea, I might just have to implement it.
Andi..
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