Class SequenceGenerator
This is a generic machine for pre-allocating ranges of sequence numbers in order to improve concurrency. The public methods are synchronized and should be brief. The caller of the methods in this class is responsible for updating values on disk when the generator is exhausted or when it needs to allocate a new range of values.
The most used method in this class is getCurrentValueAndAdvance(). This method returns the next number in the range managed by the sequence generator. This method will raise an exception if the sequence generator is exhausted. Otherwise getCurrentValueAndAdvance() hands back a tuple of return values:
( status, currentValue, lastAllocatedValue, numberOfValuesAllocated )
The status field takes the following values:
- RET_I_AM_CONFUSED - This value should never be returned. If this value comes back, then the sequence generator is confused.
- RET_OK - This means that the generator has successfully obtained a next value. That value is currentValue.
- RET_MARK_EXHAUSTED - This means that the generator has reached the end of its legal range and is handing back its very last value. The caller must mark the catalogs to indicate that the range is exhausted. The very last value being handed back is currentValue.
- RET_ALLOCATE_NEW_VALUES - This means that the generator has come to the end
of its pre-allocated values. The caller needs to update the catalog to grab a new range of
legal values and then call allocateNewRange() to tell the generator that the range was
successfully allocated. The remaining values in the return tuple have these meanings:
- currentValue - This is what is expected to be the current value in the catalog before allocating a new range. If, in fact, this is not the value in the catalog, then we are racing with another session to drain values from the generator and update the disk. Do not update the catalog if the value there is not currentValue. Instead, assume that another session got in ahead of us and grabbed a new range of values. Simply call getCurrentValueAndAdvance() again.
- lastAllocatedValue - This is the next value to write to the catalog.
- numberOfValuesAllocated - This is the number of values which were allocated if we successfully updated the catalog. If we successfully updated the catalog, then we should call allocateNewRange(), handing it this value so that it can reset its range. As a sanity check, we also hand allocateNewRange() the currentValue that we were given. The allocateNewRange() method will assume we're racing another session and will ignore us if its sense of currentValue does not agree with ours.
It may happen that getCurrentValueAndAdvance() tells its caller to allocate a new range of sequence numbers in the system catalog. If the caller successfully allocates a new range, the caller should call allocateNewRange() to tell the generator to update its internal memory of that range.
The peekAtCurrentValue() method is provided so that unused, pre-allocated values can be flushed when the sequence generator is being discarded. The caller updates the catalog with the value returned by peekAtCurrentValue(). The peekAtCurrentValue() method is also called by the syscs_peek_at_sequence() function which users should call rather than try to scan the underlying catalog themselves.
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Field Summary
FieldsModifier and TypeFieldDescriptionprivate final boolean
private long
private final long
private boolean
private final long
private final long
private final SequencePreallocator
private long
private final long
private final String
private final String
private final boolean
static final int
static final int
static final int
static final int
static final int
private static final int
If pre-allocation drops below this level, then we need to grab another chunk of numbersstatic final int
static final int
static final int
static final int
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Constructor Summary
ConstructorsConstructorDescriptionSequenceGenerator
(Long currentValue, boolean canCycle, long increment, long maxValue, long minValue, long restartValue, String schemaName, String sequenceName, SequencePreallocator sequencePreallocator) Normal constructor -
Method Summary
Modifier and TypeMethodDescriptionprivate void
advanceValue
(long[] retval) Advance the sequence generator.void
allocateNewRange
(long expectedCurrentValue, long numberOfAllocatedValues) Allocate a new range.clone
(boolean restart) Clone this sequence generator.Clone this sequence generator.private void
computeNewAllocation
(long oldCurrentValue, long[] retval) Compute the number of values to allocate.private int
This method returns the number of values to pre-allocate when we grab a new chunk of values.private long
computeRemainingValues
(long oldCurrentValue) Get the number of values remaining until we bump against an endpoint of the legal range of values.long[]
Get the next sequence number managed by this generator and advance the number.getName()
Get the name of this sequence generator.Get the name of the schema of this sequence generator.private void
markExhausted
(long[] retval) Mark the generator as exhausted.private boolean
overflowed
(long originalValue, long incrementedValue) Return true if an overflow/underflow occurred.Peek at the current value of the sequence generator without advancing the generator.
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Field Details
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PREALLOCATION_THRESHHOLD
private static final int PREALLOCATION_THRESHHOLDIf pre-allocation drops below this level, then we need to grab another chunk of numbers- See Also:
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RET_I_AM_CONFUSED
public static final int RET_I_AM_CONFUSED- See Also:
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RET_OK
public static final int RET_OK- See Also:
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RET_MARK_EXHAUSTED
public static final int RET_MARK_EXHAUSTED- See Also:
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RET_ALLOCATE_NEW_VALUES
public static final int RET_ALLOCATE_NEW_VALUES- See Also:
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CVAA_STATUS
public static final int CVAA_STATUS- See Also:
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CVAA_CURRENT_VALUE
public static final int CVAA_CURRENT_VALUE- See Also:
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CVAA_LAST_ALLOCATED_VALUE
public static final int CVAA_LAST_ALLOCATED_VALUE- See Also:
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CVAA_NUMBER_OF_VALUES_ALLOCATED
public static final int CVAA_NUMBER_OF_VALUES_ALLOCATED- See Also:
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CVAA_LENGTH
public static final int CVAA_LENGTH- See Also:
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_CAN_CYCLE
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_STEP_INCREASES
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_INCREMENT
private final long _INCREMENT -
_MAX_VALUE
private final long _MAX_VALUE -
_MIN_VALUE
private final long _MIN_VALUE -
_RESTART_VALUE
private final long _RESTART_VALUE -
_SCHEMA_NAME
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_SEQUENCE_NAME
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_PREALLOCATOR
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_isExhausted
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_currentValue
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_remainingPreallocatedValues
private long _remainingPreallocatedValues
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Constructor Details
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SequenceGenerator
public SequenceGenerator(Long currentValue, boolean canCycle, long increment, long maxValue, long minValue, long restartValue, String schemaName, String sequenceName, SequencePreallocator sequencePreallocator) Normal constructor
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Method Details
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clone
Clone this sequence generator. This method supports the special bulk-insert optimization in InsertResultSet.
- Parameters:
restart
- True if the clone should be reset to start at the beginning instead of at the current value.
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clone
Clone this sequence generator. This method supports the special bulk-insert optimization in InsertResultSet.
- Parameters:
newStartValue
- New value to start with.
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getSchemaName
Get the name of the schema of this sequence generator. Technically, this doesn't need to be synchronized. But it is simpler to just maintain a rule that all public methods should be synchronized.
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getName
Get the name of this sequence generator. Technically, this doesn't need to be synchronized. But it is simpler to just maintain a rule that all public methods should be synchronized.
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allocateNewRange
public void allocateNewRange(long expectedCurrentValue, long numberOfAllocatedValues) Allocate a new range. Is a NOP if the current value is not what we expected. See the class header comment for more information on how this method is used.
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peekAtCurrentValue
Peek at the current value of the sequence generator without advancing the generator. Returns null if the generator is exhausted.
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getCurrentValueAndAdvance
Get the next sequence number managed by this generator and advance the number. Could raise an exception if the legal range is exhausted and wrap-around is not allowed--that is, if NO CYCLE was specified when the sequence was defined. See the class header comment for a description of how this method operates.
- Returns:
- Returns an array of longs indexed by the CVAA_* constants.
- Throws:
StandardException
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advanceValue
Advance the sequence generator. Pre-allocate a range of new values if necessary.
- Parameters:
retval
- Array of return values to fill in: see CVAA_* constants- Throws:
StandardException
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markExhausted
private void markExhausted(long[] retval) Mark the generator as exhausted.
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overflowed
private boolean overflowed(long originalValue, long incrementedValue) Return true if an overflow/underflow occurred. This happens if the originalValue and incrementedValue have opposite sign. Overflow also occurs if the incrementedValue falls outside the range of the sequence.
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computeNewAllocation
Compute the number of values to allocate. The range may wrap around.
- Parameters:
oldCurrentValue
- INPUT Used to compute how many values need to be allocatedretval
- OUTPUT Array of values to fill in (see CVAA_* constants)- Throws:
StandardException
- if any error occurs.
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computeRemainingValues
private long computeRemainingValues(long oldCurrentValue) Get the number of values remaining until we bump against an endpoint of the legal range of values. This is a positive number and so may understate the number of remaining values if the datatype is BIGINT.
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computePreAllocationCount
private int computePreAllocationCount()This method returns the number of values to pre-allocate when we grab a new chunk of values. This is a bit of defensive coding to cover the case when the sequence's parameters are absurdly large.
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