Cleaning out a lot of old junk from the code, and one thing lead to another...
* Build is improved, now constructing docker images with 'jib'. Clean build went from 3 minutes to 50 seconds.
* The ProcessService's spawning is smarter. Will now just spawn a java process instead of relying on the application plugin's generated outputs.
* Project is migrated to GraalVM
* gRPC clients are re-written with a neat fluent/functional style. e.g.
```channelPool.call(grpcStub::method)
.async(executor) // <-- optional
.run(argument);
```
This change is primarily to allow handling ManagedChannel errors, but it turned out to be a pretty clean API overall.
* For now the project is all in on zookeeper
* Service discovery is now based on APIs and not services. Theoretically means we could ship the same code either a monolith or a service mesh.
* To this end, began modularizing a few of the APIs so that they aren't strongly "living" in a service. WIP!
Missing is documentation and testing, and some more breaking apart of code.
To avoid having to either hard-code or manually configure service addresses (possibly several dozen), and to reduce the project's dependency on docker to deal with routing and discovery, the option to use [Zookeeper](https://zookeeper.apache.org/) to manage services and discovery has been added.
A service registry interface was added, with a Zookeeper implementation and a basic implementation that only works on docker and hard-codes everything.
The last remaining REST service, the assistant-service, has been migrated to gRPC.
This also proved a good time to clear out primordial technical debt from the root of the codebase. The 'service-client' library has been taken behind the barn and given a last farewell. It's replaced by a small library for managing gRPC channels.
Since it's no longer used by anything, RxJava has been removed as a dependency from the project.
Although the current state seems reasonably stable, this is a work-in-progress commit.
Clean up the sideloading code a bit, making the Reddit sideloader use the more sophisticated SideloaderProcessing approach to sideloading, instead of mimicing StackexchangeSideloader's cruder approach.
The reddit sideloader now uses the SideloaderProcessing class. It also properly sets js-attributes for the sideloaded documents.
The control GUI now also filters the upload directory items based on name, and disables the items that do not have appropriate filenames.
The change deprecates the 'algorithm' field from the domain ranking set configuration. Instead, the algorithm will be chosen based on whether influence domains are provided, and whether similarity data is present.
Improve the UX of the sideload GUI by sorting the results in a sensible fashion, first by whether it's a directory, then by its filename.
The change also changes the timestamp rendering to a more human-readable format than full ISO-8601.
The sideload forms didn't properly set the label 'for' property, meaning that while label tags existed, they weren't appropriately clickable.
Also removed unnecessary limits on the sideload target being a directory for stackexchange and warc. It's been possible to directly load a particular file for a while, but not allowed due to GUI limits.
Adds experimental sideloading support for pusshift.io style reddit data. This dataset is limited to data older than 2023, due to licensing changes making large-scale data extraction difficult.
Since the median post quality on reddit is not very good, he sideloader will only load a subset of self-texts and top-level comments that have sufficiently many upvotes. Empirically this appears to mostly return good matches, even if it probably could index more.
Tests were written for this, but all require local reddit data which can't be distributed with the source code. If these can not be found, the tests will shortcircuit as OK. They're mostly there for debugging, and it's fine if they don't always run.
The change also refactors the sideloading a bit since it was a bit messy.
* (executor-api) Make executor API talk GRPC
The executor's REST API was very fragile and annoying to work with, lacking even basic type safety. Migrate to use GRPC instead. GRPC is a bit of a pain with how verbose it is, but that is probably a lesser evil. This is a fairly straightforward change, but it's also large so a solid round of testing is needed...
The change set breaks out the GrpcStubPool previously residing in the QueryService, and makes it available to all clients.
ServiceId.name was also renamed to avoid the very dangerous clash with Enum.name().
The boilerplate needed for grpc was also extracted into a common gradle file for inclusion into the appropriate build.gradle-files.
To help distinguish between environments, a system property 'control.appBorder' is added that is injected as a body element border property in the control GUI stylesheets.
This changeset adds an action for downloading a set of sample data from downloads.marginalia.nu.
It also refactors out some leaky abstractions out of FileStorageService. allocateTemporaryStorage has been renamed allocateStorage. The storage was never temporary in any scenario...
It also doesn't take a storage base, as there was always only one valid option for this input. The allocateStorage method finds the appropriate base itself.
This will avoid having to dig in the message queue to perform this relatively common task.
The control service was also refactored to extract common timestamp formatting logic out of the data objects and into the rendering.
The sideload instruction in the stackexchange template was updated. The instruction now states that stackexchange data will be loaded from a directory on the server and directs users to a new documentation url for more detailed information.
Previously, in order to load encyclopedia data into the search engine, it was necessary to use the encyclopedia.marginalia.nu converter to first create a .db-file. This isn't very ergonomic, so parts of that code-base was lifted in as a 3rd party library, and conversion from .zim to .db is now done automatically.
The output file name is based on the original filename, plus a crc32 hash and a .db-ending, to ensure we can recycle the data on repeat loads.
The change adds a new column to the MESSAGE_QUEUE table called AUDIT_RELATED_ID. This field is populated transparently, using a dictionary mapping Thread IDs to Message IDs, populated by the inbox handlers.
The existing RELATED_ID field has too many semantics associated with them,
among other things the FSM code uses them this field in tracking state changes.
The change set also improves the consistency of inbox names. The IndexClient was buggy and populated its outbox with a UUID. This is fixed. All Service2Service outboxes are now prefixed with 'pp:' to make them even easier to differentiate.
In some scenarios, such as when restoring storage items from json-manifest on db failure, the file storage view would present the items in a non-chronological order. Added a sort() operation to mitigate this.
Use a system.properties file to configure the system. This is loaded statically by MainClass or ProcessMainClass. Update the property names to be more consistent, and update the documentations to reflect the changes.
