[hibernate-dev] Slight change in the way Search is auto-registered by Annotations

[Sanne Grinovero]

right it's a separate concern, so I'll change the subject, but it
would still be very nice to change this before the release of
Hiberante Core 3.5
so we can finally remove this Contextholder and cleanup that part.
If you do it later we need to keep it around to be compatible.. but as
you're breaking compatibility now it looks like a good moment to do
this, so that Search 3.2 would be clean and depending on core 3.5
only.
We could also remove all documentation about listeners, as the
hand-configured way would never be needed.

Sanne

2010/2/2 Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel at hibernate.org>:
> That's a separate concern if I understand you correctly.
> If I summarize, you want to be able to tell core to initialize one instance of a listener across a set of events provided the listener implements all the required interfaces.
>
> On 2 févr. 2010, at 00:27, Sanne Grinovero wrote:
>
>> Didn't follow the full discussion, but this looks like a good moment
>> to rise a flag
>> about HSEARCH-314: I'm still not sure if this bug is real or not,
>> but the ContextHolder could now be removed altogether, removing any
>> doubt about memory leaks:
>>
>> as core registers the listener by reflection if Search is found, and
>> this Search will need at least this version of Hibernate, registering
>> the listeners by configuration doesn't make sense anymore.
>> Also older versions of Search aren't compatible (BTW, what about
>> changing the eventlistener name and throw an exception if older
>> incompatible version is found?)
>> If you remove the ContextHolder and make sure the eventlistener is
>> initialized only once it should be fine. Core should just create a
>> single instance of the Search listener for all events, this is already
>> the case afaik.
>>
>> Sanne
>>
>> 2010/2/1 Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org>:
>>> For Search afaict as you mentioned listeners will be the touchpoint
>>> here.  So it depends on what is accessible to the listeners.
>>>
>>> At some point this just needs to be a best effort.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 18:42 +0100, Emmanuel Bernard wrote:
>>>> Hardy,
>>>> How would it work for say a DirectoryProvider in Hibernate search (which is a plugin of HSearch which itself is a plugin of Core in a way - listener).
>>>>
>>>> Remember we have the hibernate.search.default.[customproperty] category and the hibernate.search.[indexname].[customproperty] category. What would the the impl of PropertyConsumer#collectConsumedProperties like for Hibernate Search?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 1 févr. 2010, at 16:28, Hardy Ferentschik wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The pull approach via an additional PropertyConsumer interface works for me.
>>>>> It seems to be a good trade-off. Least invasive while still getting some order
>>>>> into the properties.
>>>>>
>>>>> --Hardy
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:14:02 -0300, Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 09:49 +0100, Emmanuel Bernard wrote:
>>>>>>> Also "plugins" can make use of the general availability of properties.
>>>>>>> For example Hibernate Search reads everything under hibernate.search (and it's not a limited set of property names). Likewise, HSearch extensions can use whatever property name they want to configure say the custom backend or the directory providers (either custom or even one of the system properties).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The main use case I was keeping in mind along the way was caching.  I know in the JBC and Infinispan integrations they added the ability to read a lot of config information from our properties.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As long as it is something configured by the Configuration ->
>>>>>> Settings/SessionFactory process or the something is known to
>>>>>> SessionFactory at the end of its init it is workable.  For example, I
>>>>>> imagine Validator would be easy to tie in here because of the listeners;
>>>>>> they are known to the SessionFactory.  Not so sure about Search, it
>>>>>> registers listeners too so maybe its ok.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The first question is whether we want a push or pull (from perspective
>>>>>> of the things being configured) model here.  For example, would the
>>>>>> ConnectionProvider tell SessionFactory about the properties it consumed
>>>>>> (push)?  Or would the SessionFactory ask the ConnectionProvider for that
>>>>>> info (pull)?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The pull approach has the advantage of being the least trade-off .  We
>>>>>> could add an optional interface "PropertyConsumer" that things can
>>>>>> choose to implement.  If they do, the method would be something like
>>>>>> "collectConsumedProperties(Map copy)"; they would put all the property
>>>>>> keys/values into the given map.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Another potential "pull" approach is to not pass around j.u.Properties
>>>>>> into these things to configure themselves, but to instead wrap that in a
>>>>>> class that journals the key/values as they are requested.  That is a bit
>>>>>> more invasive though as it would mean changing quite a few contracts,
>>>>>> some of which are implemented by classes outside our control.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In the "push" strategy, the things configuring themselves somehow push
>>>>>> which properties (key/value) they are consuming.  Much like the second
>>>>>> pull-approach, this is pretty invasive because we would need to pass in
>>>>>> the mechanism for these "configurables" to report back which properties
>>>>>> they are consuming.  Not to mention its tedious.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Long term I like the second pull approach.  However, I personally think
>>>>>> it is too disruptive in the short term and that we should use the first
>>>>>> pull approach for now.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
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