[LUCENE-1720] TimeLimitedIndexReader and associated utility class

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: core/index
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Mark Harwood
• Reporter: Mark Harwood
• Created: 28/Jun/09 22:12
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 12:03

Description

An alternative to TimeLimitedCollector that has the following advantages:

1) Any reader activity can be time-limited rather than just single searches e.g. the document retrieve phase.
2) Times out faster (i.e. runaway queries such as fuzzies detected quickly before last "collect" stage of query processing)

Uses new utility timeout class that is independent of IndexReader.

Initial contribution includes a performance test class but not had time as yet to work up a formal Junit test.
TimeLimitedIndexReader is coded as JDK1.5 but can easily be undone.

Issue Links

• relates to: LUCENE-2769 FilterIndexReader in trunk does not implement getSequentialSubReaders() correctly