Feat: Introduce ScopedPatternFilterFactory for Managed, Thread-Safe Filtering #287
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Key Motivation
The existing
PatternFilterclass is effective for single-threaded use but has two critical limitations in concurrent environments:new PatternFilter()triggers a full Hyperscan database compilation.This forces consumers to implement their own complex and error-prone pooling or
ThreadLocalmanagement to use Hyperscan filtering safely and efficiently in multi-threaded applications like web servers.This PR introduces
ScopedPatternFilterFactoryas a high-level, managed solution that solves these problems out of the box.Key Differences & Improvements
The new
ScopedPatternFilterFactorysupersedes the manualPatternFilterapproach by providing:Thread-Safety by Design: The factory manages a unique, isolated
ScopedPatternFilterinstance for each thread, eliminating the need for external synchronization.High Performance via Caching: The expensive database compilation is performed only once per thread. Subsequent requests for a filter on the same thread reuse the already-compiled instance, drastically improving performance.
Simplified and Safer API: Users interact with a single factory instance and obtain a filter via
try-with-resources (var filter = factory.get()). This returns a proxy that prevents accidental closure of the shared, thread-local resource.Automatic Resource Cleanup: It introduces a robust,
PhantomReference-based mechanism to automatically release native resources for threads that have terminated, preventing memory leaks in dynamic environments.