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Implement approximate length and other length routines for proper broken character processing #26

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lopex opened this issue Apr 25, 2019 · 0 comments

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lopex commented Apr 25, 2019

MRI has several character length routines that have different semantics and are used quite inconsistently, wiki: https://github.com/jruby/jruby/wiki/Encodings-in-JRuby.

For now we only have two semantics:

  • return -1 on broken or (-1 - n) for missing n bytes in a stream (in jcodings itself).
  • StringSupport.preciseLength in JRuby core.

There are several issues:
#25
jruby/joni#38
jruby/joni#17
jruby/joni#46

All of those are related to semantics where length returns 1 for invalid character, so scans can advance while consuming arrays (were we have -1 and fall into infinite loops or AIOOBE)

Presto mitigated some of that by using our NonStrictUtf8Encoding here:
prestodb/presto#8711

Ultimately, we need to decide whether to scatter our code with more costly validating length routines (which would be wasteful for already validated Strings), or try a less wasteful approach by expanding on https://github.com/jruby/jcodings/tree/unsafe-encoding

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