-----Original Message----- From: Emmanuel Bernard [mailto:emmanuel@hibernate.org] Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 10:06 AM To: John Griffin Cc: hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org Subject: Re: [hibernate-dev] hsearch-6 serializable Hits object How do you deal with serialized Hits? You raise a "LazyInitializationException" like when a user access an unavailable document? Same for the serializable HitIterator? -------------- I don't deal with lazy initialization. I use the low-level TopDocs object. This gives me a document number and score only. Hence it gives me good response times even across a 1-million document index. This way the size of the document is not a consideration for memory constraints. Once I have the TopDocs object I just retrieve the paged amount of documents as the User asks for them. 10, 20 30, etc. at a time. I also maintain state with this TopDocs object by passing it back and forth between client/server with pointers to current locations. We do limit the size of the TopDocs object to 200. (somewhat arbitrary) TopDocs also contains a count of the number of actual hits that resulted from the search. I use this to warn the user that his search should be narrowed if necessary. Here's an ex. Our employeecomments table has 1 million records. A search for the word 'labor' returns a count of 157,000+ hits but we only return the top 20 along with the TopDocs object (hidden for state) and a statement that 'maybe you should refine your search a little';>) (we do tell them the amount of hits though). Also we limit the actual size of the TopDocs Object to the top 200 records. -------------- Which approach are you following to expose the data? christian's proposal? In christian's proposal, what is really needed for serialization is Hit, but then Hit is not thing but a Document and a score wich can be projected as well. -------------- My SerializableHits object is really nothing more than a rebuild of a Hit and score into serializable components. I use the doc number from the TopDocs to obtain the document and use the TopDocs score. The entire reason behind this is to allow Lucene classes we had originally located locally to our application to be moved to a remote server that deals solely with Lucene. Now we have our application on clustered JBoss which accesses remote servers that solely deal with Lucene (add, update, delete, search). -------------- I don't see the need for a lazy Hit in this scheme, hence no need for a serializable version. BTW who is consuming Hit(s) aside for the user's application? does Lucene has (public) APIs consuming Hits? -------------- In my case the application is the only consumer. I've never looked at Lucene in that way i.e. if it were the consumer. I hope this helps. Let me know what you think. -------------- Emmanuel On 7 juin 07, at 22:47, John Griffin wrote: > Do we want to convert the Lucene Hits object to a serializable > format so it could be accessed remotely? I'm have developed this at > work and have a 'SerializablelHits' object for this purpose. Is > this overkill right now? Change later? Thoughts? > > > > John G. > > _______________________________________________ > hibernate-dev mailing list > hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev