[LUCENE-9779] Hunspell: add an API to interrupt long computations

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 9.0
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Peter Gromov
• Created: 16/Feb/21 14:12
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 16:15
• Resolved: 17/Feb/21 08:10

Description

For example, to ensure responsiveness, IntelliJ-based IDEs periodically call a special method which can throw a dedicated exception. This allows the currently executed computation to be interrupted and release all the locks it holds, allowing the UI thread to grab them as quickly as possible.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2378