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Noble Paul commented on SOLR-16894:
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Instead of blindly adding ResourceLoader support, maybe we should discuss the 
lifecycle of the component and see what is the best way to support the usecase. 
BYW, is there a working code for this component where I can take a peek?

> Configurable doc freq: Allow StatsCache instances to be ResourceLoaderAware
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>
>                 Key: SOLR-16894
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-16894
>             Project: Solr
>          Issue Type: Bug
>      Security Level: Public(Default Security Level. Issues are Public) 
>            Reporter: Doug Turnbull
>            Priority: Major
>
> I had been working on a plugin to allow the document frequency stats to be 
> controlled by the user. This has precedent in other search engines where 
> another corpus is more representative of a terms true document frequency / 
> significance. Specifically, [Vespa lets you pass significance at query 
> time.|#significance]]. This doesn't just apply to how doc freq is 
> represented, but the entire set of stats from total term freq, etc.
> This is a common painpoint in test corpuses where you have a smaller sample 
> of the documents than the global corpus. It was a frequency bugabear at 
> Shopify, and now at my current employer, for doing relevance testing. It's 
> also a problem whenever you have a corpus that may include some "outliers" 
> that actually aren't outliers in the sense of how your users perceive your 
> corpus. An example is "headache" may not be the jargon to use in a medical 
> textbook, it is just rare by happenstance. Yet searchers still perceive it as 
> a not very significant term.
> I had made some progress ([here|http://example.com/]), however I noticed only 
> certain types of classes can be ResourceLoaderAware in order to read 
> configuration. Specifically I see this error running my tests:
>  
> {code:java}
> ./gradlew --stacktrace --info test 
> {code}
> {code:java}
>                 org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: Invalid 'Aware' object: 
> manual.idf.stats.ManagedStatsCache@5c19c030 -- 
> org.apache.lucene.util.ResourceLoaderAware must be an instance of: 
> [org.apache.lucene.analysis.CharFilterFactory] 
> [org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenFilterFactory] 
> [org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenizerFactory] 
> [org.apache.solr.search.QParserPlugin] 
> [org.apache.solr.schema.FieldType]{code}
>  
>  
> Can I propose we add the StatsCache to the list of allowed 
> ResourceLoaderAware objects?
> Some alternatives I've thought about:
>  * I probably can do some ugly hacks to work around this, but I'd rather do 
> the "right thing"
>  * I'd prefer not to create a separate fieldtype that changes how the stats 
> are managed. For one, in my specific case, I don't want to have to have a 
> radically different test config compared to my setup. This is still "text" 
> with texty like configurability
>  ** Second I like the ability with the stats cache to "fall back" to an 
> internal stat if one is missing.
>  * Pass at query time - this is a more radical change similar to what it 
> would take to make BM25 params configurable at query time
>  * It's possible I could create a Similarity to change doc freq, however it 
> too, would not be ResourceLoaderAware apparently.



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