bug6173: untested implementation of a smart iterator for GitHub releases

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Axel Uhl
2025-11-05 23:16:46 +01:00
parent 1eab2fca9c
commit fabb77680a
@@ -8,8 +8,7 @@ import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.NoSuchElementException;
import java.util.TreeMap;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
@@ -31,7 +30,11 @@ import com.sap.sse.util.HttpUrlConnectionHelper;
* <code>https://github.com/{owner}/{repo}/releases/download/{release-name}</code>. The GitHub
* {@code /releases} end point delivers the releases in descending chronological order, so
* newest releases first. With this, we can cache old results and try to get along with the
* harsh rate limit of only 60 requests per hour when used without authentication.
* harsh rate limit of only 60 requests per hour when used without authentication.<p>
*
* TODO Concurrency Control! What, if multiple requests or iterations are run on this repository object concurrently?<p>
*
* TODO implement a cool-down period, e.g., one minute, during which the first releases page is loaded only once<p>
*
* @author Axel Uhl (d043530)
*/
@@ -42,13 +45,35 @@ public class GithubReleasesRepository extends AbstractReleaseRepository implemen
private final static String GITHUB_BASE_URL = "https://github.com";
private final String owner;
private final String repositoryName;
/**
* The cache of releases as loaded from the GitHub web site. The cache is filled when iterating using a
* {@link ReleaseIterator}, by loading paginated release records, converting them to {@link GithubRelease} objects
* and storing them in this cache.
* <p>
*
* The cache does not guarantee to contain the newest releases, nor does it guarantee to go back all the way to the
* oldest release. Its contents are contiguous in the sense of how the releases are returned by the GitHub API in
* descending order of publication, from new to old. In other words, if there is a release cached that was published
* at time point {@code t1} and another at a later time point {@code t2}, then the cache is guaranteed to contain
* all releases published in the time range {@code [t1:t2]} (inclusive).
* <p>
*
* Should a {@link ReleaseIterator} have enumerated all releases back to the oldest one, the
* {@link #cacheContainsOldestRelease} flag will be set to {@code true} which means that when an iteration has
* reached the oldest release in the cache, iteration is complete, and no further page loading is necessary
* to complete the iteration.
*/
private final TreeMap<TimePoint, Release> releasesByPublishingTimePoint;
private boolean cacheContainsOldestRelease;
public GithubReleasesRepository(String owner, String repositoryName, String defaultReleaseNamePrefix) {
super(defaultReleaseNamePrefix);
this.owner = owner;
this.repositoryName = repositoryName;
this.releasesByPublishingTimePoint = new TreeMap<>();
this.cacheContainsOldestRelease = false;
}
private String getRepositoryPath() {
@@ -66,57 +91,154 @@ public class GithubReleasesRepository extends AbstractReleaseRepository implemen
}
/**
* Always fetches the first page from the {@code /releases} end point and starts constructing releases, until a
* publishing time point overlap with {@link GithubReleasesRepository#releasesByPublishingTimePoint} is found. Then
* we know we can continue to enumerate the remaining releases from that cache.
* Always fetches the first page from the {@code /releases} end point and starts constructing and
* {@link GithubReleasesRepository#releasesByPublishingTimePoint caching} releases, until a publishing time point
* overlap with {@link GithubReleasesRepository#releasesByPublishingTimePoint} is found. Iteration then starts from
* that cache. If the iterator has returned all elements from the cache going backwards in publishing history, and
* {@link GithubReleasesRepository#cacheContainsOldestRelease} is {@code false}, indicating that the cache does not
* go back to the "beginning of time," and still more elements are requested from this iterator, paginated release
* documents need to get loaded again until we find even older releases than the oldest one from the cache. The
* loaded elements will be added to the cache, and a new internal iterator is launched on the cache starting from
* the then loaded element.
* <p>
*
* All releases found by loading a page are added to the
* {@link GithubReleasesRepository#releasesByPublishingTimePoint} cache.
* {@link GithubReleasesRepository#releasesByPublishingTimePoint} cache. If the page with the oldest sequence of
* releases has been loaded (there is no next page then anymore), the
* {@link GithubReleasesRepository#cacheContainsOldestRelease} flag is set to {@code true}.
*
* @author Axel Uhl (d043530)
*
*/
private class ReleaseIterator implements Iterator<Release> {
/**
* Initialized to the URL for loading the first page of releases; each call to
* {@link #loadNextPage(TimePoint)} changes this to the next page, or {@code null}
* if the last page was loaded.
*/
private String nextPageURL;
private Iterator<Pair<TimePoint, GithubRelease>> publishingTimePointsAndReleasesFromCurrentPageIterator;
/**
* Takes precedence if not {@code null} and still having elements; enumerates the cached releases, starting from
* the newest (last in the cache) to the oldest (first in the cache). When fully consumed, page loading has to
* continue until releases published earlier than the oldest one from the
* {@link GithubReleasesRepository#releasesByPublishingTimePoint cache} are found.
*/
private Iterator<Release> cachedReleasesIterator;
private ReleaseIterator() throws MalformedURLException, IOException, ParseException {
nextPageURL = getReleasesURL();
loadNextPage();
cachedReleasesIterator = null;
while (nextPageURL != null && cachedReleasesIterator == null) {
loadNextPage(/* olderThan */ null);
}
}
private void loadNextPage() throws MalformedURLException, IOException, ParseException {
final List<Pair<TimePoint, GithubRelease>> result = new LinkedList<>();
/**
* Loads the page of releases referenced by {@link #nextPageURL}.
* <p>
*
* If {@code olderThan} is {@code null}, only the releases newer than the newest entry in the cache are loaded
* into the cache, and {@link #cachedReleasesIterator} is set to the newest element in the cache if and only if
* the cache was empty when this method was called, or the page contained a release not newer than the newest
* release in the cache. This also means that if with {@code olderThan==null} the
* {@link #cachedReleasesIterator} is {@code null} after this method returns, one or more calls will be required
* to create an "overlap" with the cache before starting the iteration. This is required because we guarantee
* the cache to be "contiguous" in terms of the releases that exist.
* <p>
*
* If {@code olderThan} is not {@code null}, only releases published before {@code olderThan} are added to the
* cache, and {@link #cachedReleasesIterator} is set to the newest element added to the cache, or set to
* {@code null} if no release was added to the cache by this call.
* <p>
* Precondition: {@link #nextPageURL} is not {@code null}.
* <p>
* Postcondition: {@link GithubReleasesRepository#cacheContainsOldestRelease} is {@code true} if and only if
* this invocation has loaded the last page of releases that exist
*
* @param olderThan
* if {@code null}, releases newer than the newest release from the cache will be added to the cache,
* and the {@link #cachedReleasesIterator} will be set to the then newest cache element; if not
* {@code null}, only releases published before {@code olderThan} will be loaded, and
* {@link #cachedReleasesIterator} is then set to the newest of the older releases loaded, if any, or
* to {@code null} if no releases older than {@code olderThan} were found during this invocation.
*/
private void loadNextPage(TimePoint olderThan) throws MalformedURLException, IOException, ParseException {
cachedReleasesIterator = null;
final URLConnection connection = HttpUrlConnectionHelper.redirectConnection(new URL(nextPageURL));
final InputStream index = (InputStream) connection.getContent();
final String linkHeader = connection.getHeaderField("link");
nextPageURL = getNextPageURL(linkHeader);
cacheContainsOldestRelease = cacheContainsOldestRelease || nextPageURL == null; // in this case we have seen and cached the last (oldest) page of releases
final JSONArray releasesJson = (JSONArray) new JSONParser().parse(new InputStreamReader(index));
boolean addedAtLeastOneReleaseToCache = false;
final boolean cacheWasEmpty = releasesByPublishingTimePoint.isEmpty();
for (final Object releaseObject : releasesJson) {
final Pair<TimePoint, GithubRelease> publishedAtAndRelease = getPublishedAtAndReleaseFromJson((JSONObject) releaseObject);
releasesByPublishingTimePoint.put(publishedAtAndRelease.getA(), publishedAtAndRelease.getB());
result.add(publishedAtAndRelease);
if (olderThan == null) { // looking for releases published after the newest cache entry
if (cacheWasEmpty || publishedAtAndRelease.getA().after(releasesByPublishingTimePoint.lastKey())) {
addedAtLeastOneReleaseToCache = true;
releasesByPublishingTimePoint.put(publishedAtAndRelease.getA(), publishedAtAndRelease.getB());
} else {
cachedReleasesIterator = releasesByPublishingTimePoint.descendingMap().values().iterator();
}
} else { // looking for releases published before olderThan
if (publishedAtAndRelease.getA().before(olderThan)) {
addedAtLeastOneReleaseToCache = true;
releasesByPublishingTimePoint.put(publishedAtAndRelease.getA(), publishedAtAndRelease.getB());
}
}
}
if (olderThan == null) {
if (cacheWasEmpty) {
cachedReleasesIterator = releasesByPublishingTimePoint.descendingMap().values().iterator();
}
} else {
if (addedAtLeastOneReleaseToCache) {
cachedReleasesIterator = releasesByPublishingTimePoint.descendingMap().tailMap(olderThan, /* inclusive */ false).values().iterator();
}
}
publishingTimePointsAndReleasesFromCurrentPageIterator = result.iterator();
}
@Override
public boolean hasNext() {
return publishingTimePointsAndReleasesFromCurrentPageIterator.hasNext() || nextPageURL != null;
// - we're delivering from the cache and the cache has more elements, or
// - we've reached the end of the cache but the cache doesn't contain the oldest release and we can load more pages
return cachedReleasesIterator != null && cachedReleasesIterator.hasNext()
|| !cacheContainsOldestRelease && nextPageURL != null;
}
@Override
public Release next() {
if (!publishingTimePointsAndReleasesFromCurrentPageIterator.hasNext()) {
try {
// FIXME bug6173: only load next page if we have to... we may already have created an overlap with the cache from releasesByPublishingTimePoint
loadNextPage();
} catch (IOException | ParseException e) {
throw new RuntimeException(e);
final Release result;
if (cachedReleasesIterator != null && cachedReleasesIterator.hasNext()) {
result = getNextElementFromCacheIterator();
} else if (cacheContainsOldestRelease) {
throw new NoSuchElementException();
} else {
while (nextPageURL != null && cachedReleasesIterator != null) {
try {
loadNextPage(/* olderThan */ releasesByPublishingTimePoint.firstKey());
} catch (IOException | ParseException e) {
throw new RuntimeException(e);
}
}
if (cachedReleasesIterator == null || !cachedReleasesIterator.hasNext()) {
throw new NoSuchElementException();
} else {
result = getNextElementFromCacheIterator();
}
}
return publishingTimePointsAndReleasesFromCurrentPageIterator.next().getB();
return result;
}
private Release getNextElementFromCacheIterator() {
final Release result;
result = cachedReleasesIterator.next();
if (!cachedReleasesIterator.hasNext()) {
cachedReleasesIterator = null;
}
return result;
}
}
@@ -129,44 +251,6 @@ public class GithubReleasesRepository extends AbstractReleaseRepository implemen
}
}
@Override
public Release getLatestRelease(String releaseNamePrefix) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
return super.getLatestRelease(releaseNamePrefix);
}
/**
* Enumerating all releases of the GitHub repo is possible but goes against the harsh rate limit when used without
* an access token (currently only 60 requests per hour), so should ideally be avoided altogether. And if it is ever called,
* we will cache the results, so that for later requests we typically need to query only a single page, delivering the latest
* additions, if any.
*/
private Iterable<Release> getAvailableReleases() {
final List<Release> result = new LinkedList<>();
try {
String nextPageURL = getReleasesURL();
do {
final URLConnection connection = HttpUrlConnectionHelper.redirectConnection(new URL(nextPageURL));
final InputStream index = (InputStream) connection.getContent();
final String linkHeader = connection.getHeaderField("link");
final JSONArray releasesJson = (JSONArray) new JSONParser().parse(new InputStreamReader(index));
addAllReleasesTo(releasesJson, result);
nextPageURL = getNextPageURL(linkHeader);
} while (nextPageURL != null);
} catch (IOException | ParseException e) {
logger.warning("Exception trying to find releases: "+e.getMessage());
}
return result;
}
private void addAllReleasesTo(JSONArray releasesJson, List<Release> result) {
for (final Object releaseObject : releasesJson) {
final Pair<TimePoint, GithubRelease> publishedAtAndRelease = getPublishedAtAndReleaseFromJson((JSONObject) releaseObject);
result.add(publishedAtAndRelease.getB());
releasesByPublishingTimePoint.put(publishedAtAndRelease.getA(), publishedAtAndRelease.getB());
}
}
private Pair<TimePoint, GithubRelease> getPublishedAtAndReleaseFromJson(JSONObject releaseJson) {
final String name = releaseJson.get("name").toString();
final String publishedAtISO = releaseJson.get("published_at").toString();