[infinispan-dev] query npe

Sanne Grinovero sanne at infinispan.org
Wed Apr 10 10:11:18 EDT 2013


We continued the inspection on IRC, so for the sake of others this is
the conclusion:

https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HSEARCH-1296

Thanks Dan!

On 10 April 2013 15:02, Ales Justin <ales.justin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ales, good point your Channel might be configured with fire-and-forget
> messages ?
> Can you share the JGroups configuration of the Channel you are
> injecting in Search ?
>
>
> https://github.com/capedwarf/capedwarf-jboss-as/blob/master/build/src/main/resources/standalone/configuration/standalone-capedwarf.xml
>
> and
>
> https://github.com/capedwarf/capedwarf-jboss-as/blob/master/extension/src/main/java/org/jboss/as/capedwarf/services/IndexableConfigurationCallback.java
>
> -Ales
>
> The backend implementation delegates to the IndexManager at the
> receiver side in the same thread processing the incoming Message;
> that is unless the IM itself is configured to process the index
> updates asynchronously, the backend from the client side should block
> until the index is updated.
>
> Sanne
>
> On 10 April 2013 13:38, Ales Justin <ales.justin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> @Bela: is there a config way to make this JGroups backend wait for ACK?
>
> -Ales
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel at hibernate.org>
> Subject: Re: [infinispan-dev] query npe
> Date: April 10, 2013 2:06:20 PM GMT+02:00
> To: infinispan -Dev List <infinispan-dev at lists.jboss.org>
> Reply-To: infinispan -Dev List <infinispan-dev at lists.jboss.org>
>
> Dan worked to understand the problem, here is where we stand without
> Sanne's additional knowledge.
>
> The test failing is the following:
>
>   tx1.start();
>   cache.remove(key);
>   tx1.commit();
>   assert queryDeletedKey.getResults().size() == 0;
>
> Surprisingly, the entity is still found in the query and Infinispan
> Query returns `null`.
>
> The reason we suspect is the following. While pushing the index changes
> is done in sync with the transaction commit (tx sync), the backend is
> JGroups and returns right after it has sent the message to the master
> node without waiting for the index ack.
> This is a good thing as it scales much better but has the nice
> side effect of returning incorrect query results right after a change
> set is applied (indexing window + index propagation).
>
> My recommendation is to make sure Infinispan Query removes entities
> found by the query engine but not present in the grid like we do in
> Hibernate Search for the ORM case. Note that this does not solve the
> case were you add a new entity and expect to query it *right after the
> commit*. There is a similar issue around entity changes. If CapeDwarf
> can live with it it will be better off.
>
> An alternative solution would be to create a JGroups backend that waits
> for an execution ACK before giving back the had to the client but that
> will have scalability problems.
>
> Emmanuel
>
> On Tue 2013-04-09 23:41, Ales Justin wrote:
>
> Chasing down today's NPE: http://pastie.org/7382216
>
> I've added this test:
> * https://github.com/capedwarf/capedwarf-blue/commit/d416d5358
>
> The test fails. ;-)
>
> deleteAndQueryInA(org.jboss.test.capedwarf.cluster.test.QueryTest): Should
> not be here: null
>
> This is the "null" that is the cause of top NPE.
>
> -Ales
>
>
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