The previous code made an incorrect assumption that all routes refer to the same node, and would overwrite the route list on each update. This lead to storms of closing and opening channels whenever an update was received.
The new code is correctly aware that we may talk to multiple nodes.
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.
In the scenario where an operator
* Performs a new crawl from spec
* Doesn't load the data into the index
* Recrawls the data
The recrawl will not find the domains in the database, and the crawl log will be overwritten with an empty file,
irrecoverably losing the crawl log making it impossible to load!
To mitigate the impact similar problems, the change saves a backup of the old crawl log, as well as complains about this happening.
More specifically to this exact scenario however, the parquet-loaded domains are also preemptively inserted into the domain database at the start of the crawl. This should help the DbCrawlSpecProvider to find them regardless of loaded state.
This may seem a bit redundant, but losing crawl data is arguably the worst type of disaster scenario for this software, so it's arguably merited.
To help services start faster, the blacklist will no longer block until it's loaded. If such a behavior is desirable, a method was added to explicitly wait for the data.
The domain blacklist blocked the start-up of each process that injected it, adding like 30 seconds to the start-up time in prod.
This change moves the loading to a separate thread entirely. For threads or processes that require the blacklist to be definitely loaded, a helper method was added that blocks until that time.
This filter currently does not distinguish itself very much from the unfiltered results, and lends the impression that the filters don't "do anything".
It may come back in some shape or form in the future, with some additional tweaking of the rankings...
Modified the DbCrawlSpecProvider to shuffle domains after loading to ensure a good mix for each crawl. This change prevents overload of crawling the same server in parallel from different subdomains or crawling big domains all at once.
Refactored the GRPC Stub Pool for better handling of channel SHUTDOWN state. Any disconnected channels are now re-created before returning the stub.
The class was also renamed to GrpcChannelPool, as we no longer pool the stubs.
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.
Fix a bug where sideloading stackexchange files by explicitly selecting the 7z file would fail, since the 7z file would be passed along to the converter rather than the path to the pre-converted .db file.
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.
The domain ranking code was admittedly a bit of a clown fiesta; at the same time buggy, fragile and inscrutable.
Migrating over to use JGraphT to store the link graph
when doing rankings, and using their PageRank implementation. Also added a modified version that does PersonalizedPageRank.
This change set updates the query APIs to enable the search service to add additional criteria, such as QueryStrategy and TemporalBias.
The QueryStrategy makes it possible to e.g. require a match is in the title of a result, and TemporalBias enables penalizing results that are not within a particular time period.
These options are added to the search interface. The old 'recent results' is modified to use TemporalBias, and a new filter 'Search In Title' is added as well.
The vintage filter is modified to add a temporal bias for the past.
(converter) Loader for reddit data
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, and improves the sideload UX a tiny bit.
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.
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.
Adds experimental support for clustering search results by e.g. domain. At a first stage, this is only enabled for the wiki and forum filters.
The commit also cleans up the UrlDetails class, which contained a number of vestigial entries.
The WARC specification says the records should transparently remove compression. This was not done, leading to the WARC typically being a bit of a gzip-Matryoshka.
The WARC specification says the records should transparently remove compression. This was not done, leading to the WARC typically being a bit of a gzip-Matryoshka.
