Allow the dynamic PDF-name cache to be cleared and bounded - #730
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughASAtom adds a configurable limit for cached dynamic PDF names. The default is unbounded. It also adds methods to read the limit and clear the dynamic-name cache. ChangesASAtom cache limit
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Change: Feature Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Concurrent cache use can exceed the requested limit, and clearing the cache during name lookup can cause a failure. Address both races before merging unless concurrent clearing is explicitly ruled out. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The new cache controls can reduce memory retained from untrusted documents, but concurrent clearing can cause a name lookup to return null, and the configured limit is not a strict bound during concurrent use. Both risks depend on how an application uses the opt-in controls. Retained concerns
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In `@src/main/java/org/verapdf/as/ASAtom.java`:
- Line 741: Make the cache capacity check and insertion atomic in
ASAtom.getASAtom(String) by synchronizing the isCacheBelowLimit and containsKey
checks together with the CACHED_PDF_NAMES.put operation, preventing concurrent
calls from exceeding maxCachedNames.
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| if (!CACHED_PDF_NAMES.containsKey(value)) { | ||
| if (isCacheBelowLimit() && !CACHED_PDF_NAMES.containsKey(value)) { |
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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
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printf '%s\n' '--- ASAtom structure and relevant methods ---'
sed -n '1,95p' src/main/java/org/verapdf/as/ASAtom.java
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Make the cache limit check and insertion atomic.
CACHED_PDF_NAMES synchronizes individual map operations, but the size check and insertion are separate. Concurrent calls to getASAtom(String) can insert multiple distinct names after observing the same available capacity. The cache can therefore retain more entries than maxCachedNames, although the overshoot is limited by the number of racing constructors.
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} else {
- if (isCacheBelowLimit() && !CACHED_PDF_NAMES.containsKey(value)) {
- CACHED_PDF_NAMES.put(value, this);
+ synchronized (CACHED_PDF_NAMES) {
+ if (isCacheBelowLimit() && !CACHED_PDF_NAMES.containsKey(value)) {
+ CACHED_PDF_NAMES.put(value, this);
+ }
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In `@src/main/java/org/verapdf/as/ASAtom.java` at line 741, Make the cache
capacity check and insertion atomic in ASAtom.getASAtom(String) by synchronizing
the isCacheBelowLimit and containsKey checks together with the
CACHED_PDF_NAMES.put operation, preventing concurrent calls from exceeding
maxCachedNames.
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ASAtom keeps a process-wide cache of PDF names that are not one of the predefined constants. It never evicts, so a long-running process that validates documents with many unique names keeps accumulating them for its whole lifetime, with no way to reclaim the memory. Add ASAtom.clearCache() to drop the accumulated dynamic names (the predefined constants are untouched), and an optional upper bound via setMaxCachedNames beyond which new names are returned uncached. Atom equality is by value, so an uncached atom behaves identically to a cached one; no code compares atoms by identity except against the predefined constants, which are unaffected. Default is unbounded with no automatic clearing, so behaviour is unchanged unless a caller opts in.
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Review comments at @src/main/java/org/verapdf/as/ASAtom.java:
- Around line 761-762: Update getASAtom to retrieve the cached atom with one
CACHED_PDF_NAMES.get lookup and return it only when non-null, avoiding a
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| if (CACHED_PDF_NAMES.containsKey(value)) { | ||
| return CACHED_PDF_NAMES.get(value); |
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printf '%s\n' '--- COSName bindings ---'
rg -n -C 10 'ASAtom\.getASAtom|class COSName|COSName\s*\(' src/main/java --glob '*.java'
printf '%s\n' '--- all clearCache references ---'
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Read the cached atom with one map lookup.
clearCache() is public and does not synchronize with the full getASAtom lookup. If it runs between containsKey and get, getASAtom returns null. COSName(String) stores that value, and COSName.getString() can then dereference null.
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- if (CACHED_PDF_NAMES.containsKey(value)) {
- return CACHED_PDF_NAMES.get(value);
+ ASAtom cached = CACHED_PDF_NAMES.get(value);
+ if (cached != null) {
+ return cached;
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| if (CACHED_PDF_NAMES.containsKey(value)) { | |
| return CACHED_PDF_NAMES.get(value); | |
| ASAtom cached = CACHED_PDF_NAMES.get(value); | |
| if (cached != null) { | |
| return cached; |
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Review comment at @src/main/java/org/verapdf/as/ASAtom.java around lines 761 -
762:
Update getASAtom to retrieve the cached atom with one CACHED_PDF_NAMES.get
lookup and return it only when non-null, avoiding a separate containsKey check
that can race with clearCache().
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Summary
ASAtomkeeps a process-wide cache of PDF names that are not one of the predefined constants. It neverevicts, so a long-running process that validates documents with many unique names keeps accumulating them
for its whole lifetime, with no way to reclaim the memory.
Changes
ASAtom.clearCache()drops the accumulated dynamic names (the predefined name constants are untouched).A long-running process that validates untrusted documents can call this between jobs to release names
accumulated from earlier documents.
ASAtom.setMaxCachedNames(int)/getMaxCachedNames()set an optional upper bound; once the cache holdsthat many names, new names are returned uncached.
Atom equality is by value (
equals/hashCode), so an uncached atom behaves identically to a cached one;no code compares atoms by identity except against the predefined constants, which are unaffected.
Backward compatibility
Default is unbounded with no automatic clearing, so behaviour is unchanged unless a caller opts in. Java 8
compatible, and all existing parser tests pass.
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