[hibernate-dev] HSEARCH-615 Support time-constrained queries returning the first available results

[Sanne Grinovero]

2010/12/8 Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel at hibernate.org>:
> You obviously haven't tried to build a unit test for this. HSQLDB + Lucene + HSearch are simply way too fast ;)

you mean faster than milliseconds? I was suggesting to use milliseconds.

>
> On 8 déc. 2010, at 14:01, Sanne Grinovero wrote:
>
>> Well I could argue about "seconds" being appropriate for a database
>> report / batch work,
>> while a fulltext query would likely use milliseconds more appropriately,
>> but I value consistency way more than appropriateness as long as we
>> can choose for milliseconds.
>> +1
>>
>> 2010/12/8 Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel at hibernate.org>:
>>>
>>> On 8 déc. 2010, at 12:26, Sanne Grinovero wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have no strong opinions on this;
>>>> I like both
>>>>
>>>>  setTimeout(long timeout, TimeUnit timeUnit, boolean allowPartialResults)
>>>> and
>>>>  limitExecutionTimeTo (or boundExecutionTimeTo)
>>>>
>>>> The latter is only taken a milliseconds/long or is it also having a
>>>> TimeUnit parameter
>>>>
>>>> but neither express clearly what's happening to my results.
>>>>
>>>> limitResultCollectionTimeTo( milliseconds ) ?
>>>>
>>>> (imho we can avoid the TimeUnit)
>>>
>>> The timeUnit is to mimic the extended setTimeout method that takes a time unit. The original Hibernate/JPA setTimeout uses second as the unit :(
>>>
>>>      /**
>>>         * *Experimental* API, subject to change or removal
>>>         *
>>>         * Limit the time used by Hibernate Search to execute the query. When the limit is reached, results already
>>>         * fetched are returned. This time limit is a best effort. The query will likely run for longer than the
>>>         * provided time.
>>>         *
>>>         * The time limit only applies to the interactions between Hibernate Search and Lucene. In other words,
>>>         * a query to the database will not be limited.
>>>         *
>>>         * If the limit is reached and all results are not yet fetched, {@link #hasPartialResults()} returns true.
>>>         *
>>>         * @param timeout time out period
>>>         * @param timeUnit time out unit
>>>         */
>>>        FullTextQuery limitFetchingTime(long timeout, TimeUnit timeUnit);
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