File search: don't re-evaluate match filters in the UI thread - #4338
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Cache publication can race with project-change invalidation and retain stale filter states.
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Pull request overview
Optimizes file-search filtering to prevent UI freezes caused by redundant match-filter evaluation.
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- Reuses cached match filter state during tree updates.
- Caches outer-project filter results with resource-change invalidation.
- Adds nested-project filtering tests.
File summaries
| File | Description |
|---|---|
FileTreeContentProvider.java |
Optimizes incremental tree updates. |
OuterProjectFileFilter.java |
Adds per-file filter caching and invalidation. |
NestedProjectFilterTest.java |
Tests nested-project filtering behavior. |
AllFileSearchTests.java |
Registers the new test class. |
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Cache invalidation, listener lifecycle, and multi-file enumeration still have correctness and performance issues.
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The cache can remain stale after linked-folder content changes, and its permanent workspace listener lacks lifecycle cleanup.
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bundles/org.eclipse.search/search/org/eclipse/search/internal/ui/text/OuterProjectFileFilter.java:95
- Ignoring additions/removals below linked folders leaves this new static cache stale even after a search is rerun. New matches are recomputed, but filtering them still looks up the same equal
IFilekey infilterStates, socomputeIsFilteredis skipped and the pre-change answer can keep showing a duplicate (or hiding the remaining representation). Invalidate these topology-changing deltas, or scope the cache to a search-result lifetime so a rerun starts with fresh states.
* Not reported is the creation or deletion of a file below a linked folder,
* although such a file can be represented by more than one project as well.
* Those changes are not reflected by the filter state cached per match by
* {@link org.eclipse.search.ui.text.AbstractTextSearchResult} either, the
* matches of the affected files are recomputed when the search is run again.
* Invalidating the states for every added or removed file would discard them
* whenever a build or a refresh touches the workspace, which would defeat the
* purpose of remembering them.
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Linked-folder child changes can leave static cached filter states stale across subsequent searches.
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bundles/org.eclipse.search/search/org/eclipse/search/internal/ui/text/OuterProjectFileFilter.java:92
- This exception leaves the static cache stale across later searches. If a file was cached before an add/remove below a linked folder changes the set returned by
findFilesForLocationURI, rerunning the search still calls this filter with the sameIFilekey and receives the old map entry instead of recomputing it; a weak key does not help while an older search result still retains that file. Thus the comment's claimed recovery on rerun does not occur, and the wrong project representation can remain visible/hidden until some unrelated project-level invalidation. Please invalidate for these alias-changing deltas or scope/version the cache so a new search cannot reuse such entries.
* Not reported is the creation or deletion of a file below a linked folder,
* although such a file can be represented by more than one project as well.
* Those changes are not reflected by the filter state cached per match by
* {@link org.eclipse.search.ui.text.AbstractTextSearchResult} either, the
* matches of the affected files are recomputed when the search is run again.
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FileTreeContentProvider#elementsChanged(..) evaluated the active match filters again for every match of every updated file. The filter state of a match is however already computed once per match by AbstractTextSearchResult#didAddMatch(..) (and updated when the filters change) and is cached in Match#isFiltered(), which is also what initialize(..) and AbstractTextSearchViewPage#getDisplayedMatchCount(..) use. Re-evaluating the filters is not only redundant, it is expensive: OuterProjectFileFilter calls IWorkspaceRoot#findFilesForLocationURI(..), which iterates over all projects of the workspace. With a search producing thousands of matches this ran for every match in the UI thread on every batched update and froze the UI. The provider now reads the already computed filter state instead. The collection of the updated line elements was reworked as well: the matches of a file are enumerated only once, no matter how many lines of that file were updated, only the updated lines are remembered instead of all lines of the touched files, and the enumeration stops as soon as all updated lines are known to have matches. Since line elements have identity semantics (LineElement doesn't implement equals(..)/hashCode(), matches and updates refer to the very same instance), identity based sets are used. OuterProjectFileFilter is still evaluated once per match by the search result, so it now remembers the filter state per file instead of repeating the workspace lookup for every match of that file. The states are kept in a weak map keyed by the file handles the matches hold, so they are collected together with the search result they were computed for. The state doesn't depend on the filter instance, therefore the map and the resource change listener that invalidates it are static: at most one listener is registered, no matter how many filters are created. The listener discards all remembered states if projects are added, removed, opened, closed or moved, and if the description file of a project has changed. Linked resources, resource filters and virtual folders change which files represent a location, but they are not reported by the flags of a project delta (the platform's own AliasManager uses internal lifecycle events for them); they are however stored in the project description, which is written whenever they change. Looking for that single file in the delta is much cheaper than visiting the whole delta in the notification thread, and much less disruptive than discarding the states for every added or removed file. Since the file handles are equal for all searches, a remembered state must not outlive the search it was computed for: a change the listener cannot detect, like a file added or removed below a linked folder, would otherwise still be answered from the map when the search is run again. FileSearchQuery#run(..) therefore discards the remembered states when a search is started. The listener is registered before the state of the workspace is read, and the registration is published only after it is done, so that a state is never computed and remembered while the changes that would invalidate it are not reported yet. Outdated states are discarded by replacing the whole map: a state that is computed while the map is replaced is put into the replaced map and is therefore never seen again, so an invalidation cannot be lost. Added tests for OuterProjectFileFilter (missed in the original eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.text#144), including the invalidation of the remembered states, and a test that the tree of the search view doesn't evaluate the match filters again. Fixes eclipse-platform#4337 Assisted-by: Github Copilot (Claude Opus 5)
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The workspace listener lacks lifecycle cleanup, and the cache-reset test is invalidated by a different mechanism.
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bundles/org.eclipse.search/search/org/eclipse/search/internal/ui/text/OuterProjectFileFilter.java:148
- This listener is registered against the workspace for the lifetime of the JVM but is never removed when
org.eclipse.searchstops. Because the workspace keeps a strong reference to the lambda (and therefore this bundle's class loader), updating/restarting the bundle leaks the old bundle and can leave multiple listeners active. Register/unregister it withSearchPlugin's lifecycle (or add a shutdown hook called fromSearchPlugin.stop) instead.
ResourcesPlugin.getWorkspace().addResourceChangeListener(PROJECT_CHANGE_LISTENER,
IResourceChangeEvent.POST_CHANGE);
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File search: don't re-evaluate match filters in the UI thread
FileTreeContentProvider#elementsChanged(..) evaluated the active match filters again for every match of every updated file. The filter state of a match is however already computed once per match by AbstractTextSearchResult#didAddMatch(..) (and updated when the filters change) and is cached in Match#isFiltered(), which is also what initialize(..) and AbstractTextSearchViewPage#getDisplayedMatchCount(..)
use.
Re-evaluating the filters is not only redundant, it is expensive: OuterProjectFileFilter calls IWorkspaceRoot#findFilesForLocationURI(..), which iterates over all projects of the workspace. With a search
producing thousands of matches this ran for every match in the UI thread on every batched update and froze the UI. The provider now reads the already computed filter state instead.
The collection of the updated line elements was reworked as well: the matches of a file are enumerated only once, no matter how many lines of that file were updated, only the updated lines are remembered instead of
all lines of the touched files, and the enumeration stops as soon as all updated lines are known to have matches. Since line elements have identity semantics (LineElement doesn't implement equals(..)/hashCode(),
matches and updates refer to the very same instance), identity based sets are used.
OuterProjectFileFilter is still evaluated once per match by the search result, so it now remembers the filter state per file instead of repeating the workspace lookup for every match of that file. The states are kept in a weak map keyed by the file handles the matches hold, so they are collected together with the search result they were computed
for. The state doesn't depend on the filter instance, therefore the map and the resource change listener that invalidates it are static: at most one listener is registered, no matter how many filters are created.
The listener discards all remembered states if projects are added, removed, opened, closed or moved, and if the description file of a project has changed. Linked resources, resource filters and virtual folders change which files represent a location, but they are not reported by the flags of a project delta (the platform's own AliasManager uses internal lifecycle events for them); they are however stored in the project description, which is written whenever they change. Looking for that single file in the delta is much cheaper than visiting the whole delta in the notification thread, and much less disruptive than discarding the states for every added or removed file.
The listener is registered before the state of the workspace is read, and the registration is published only after it is done, so that a state is never computed and remembered while the changes that would invalidate
it are not reported yet. Outdated states are discarded by replacing the whole map: a state that is computed while the map is replaced is put into the replaced map and is therefore never seen again, so an invalidation cannot be lost.
Added tests for OuterProjectFileFilter (missed in the original eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.text#144), including the invalidation of the remembered states, and a test that the
tree of the search view doesn't evaluate the match filters again.
Fixes #4337
Assisted-by: Github Copilot (Claude Opus 5)