Details
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Improvement
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Status: Resolved
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Minor
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Resolution: Won't Fix
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1.5
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None
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jdk 1.6.x, windows xp, tomcat 6.x
Description
The CachedSqlEntityProcessor currently builds a cache of rows it sees as it goes, so later requests for that same key can be served from data that has already been fetched. The primary query could be written to fetch all possible rows, which would then be set into the cache on the first request for a row. In that case the database would only receive another query when there is a cache miss. However, the query it would execute is the one that pulls all rows, negating any performance gain.
This patch adds the ability to configure behavior on cache miss with the "onCacheMiss" attribute on an "entity" tag in the data-config.xml file. The current behavior is the default, corresponding to the setting onCacheMiss="fill". Any other value explicitly given for onCacheMiss will cause cache misses to be ignored - no query will be made to the db to fulfill them.
I've encountered two cases where this capability is useful:
1. Relatively small datasets, such as category id -> category name mappings, which will not change during the course of indexing.
2. Queries which are heavy on db resources per-query, particularly if the query for an individual record is slow, and can't be fixed easily on the db side for whatever reason.