This lets the slop library be stand-alone without dependence on coded-sequence.
The change also gets rid of the vestigial seek() method in ColumnReader.
The most common error when dealing with Slop columns is that they can fall out of sync with each other if the programmer accidentally does a conditional read and forgets to skip.
The second most common error is forgetting to close one of the columns in a reader or writer.
To deal with both cases, a new class SlopTable is added that keeps track of the lifecycle of all slop columns and performs a check when closing them that they are in sync.
Refactoring keyword extraction to extract spans information.
Modifying the intermediate storage of converted data to use the new slop library, which is allows for easier storage of ad-hoc binary data like spans and positions.
This is a bit of a katamari damacy commit that ended up dragging along a bunch of other fairly tangentially related changes that are hard to break out into separate commits after the fact. Will push as-is to get back to being able to do more isolated work.
Decorates DocumentSentences with information about which HTML tags they are nested in, and removes some redundant data on this rather memory hungry object. Separator information is encoded as a bit set instead of an array of integers.
The change also cleans up the SentenceExtractor class a fair bit. It no longer extracts ngrams, and a significant amount of redundant operations were removed as well. This is still a pretty unpleasant class to work in, but this is the first step in making it a little bit better.
This is not hooked in yet, and the term metadata is still left intact. It should probably shrink to a smaller representation (byte?) with the upcoming removal of the position mask.
Roll back to JDK 21 for now, and make Java version configurable in the root build.gradle
The project has run into no less than three distinct show-stopping bugs in JDK22, across multiple vendors, and gradle still doesn't fully support it, meaning you need multiple JDK versions installed.
Previously, in an experimental change, only the first paragraph was indexed, intended to reduce the amount of noisy tangential hits. This was not a good idea, so the change is reverted.
Look, this will make the git history look funny, but trimming unnecessary depth from the source tree is a very necessary sanity-preserving measure when dealing with a super-modularized codebase like this one.
While it makes the project configuration a bit less conventional, it will save you several clicks every time you jump between modules. Which you'll do a lot, because it's *modul*ar. The src/main/java convention makes a lot of sense for a non-modular project though. This ain't that.
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.
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.
Look at whether the property 'system.conserveProperty' is enabled when deciding he default pool size for the converter.
If true, a much more conservative default is used, limiting the risk of running out of memory.
The codebase used to have a monkey patched version of gson that made special optimizations for the unusually large JSON files that used to store e.g. crawl data.
Since JSON is no longer used in this fashion, the GSON fork is not needed anymore.
This update enhances the SideloaderProcessing and DocumentClass modules to specially handle sideloaded wiki documents. Wiki content is generally truncated to the first paragraph, which generally tends to be too short to be included independently. An additional DocumentClass (SIDELOAD) has been introduced to suppress the length check in this case.
Wrote a new test to examine the redirect behavior of the crawler, ensuring that the redirect URL is the URL that is reported in the parquet file. This works as intended.
Noticed in the course of this that the crawler doesn't add links from meta-tag redirects to the crawl frontier. Added logic to handle this case, amended the test case to verify the new behavior. Added the meta-redirect case to the HtmlDocumentProcessorPlugin as well, so that we consider it a link between documents in the unlikely case that a meta redirect is to another domain.
