history_url_provider.h revision 2a99a7e74a7f215066514fe81d2bfa6639d9eddd
1// Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
2// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
3// found in the LICENSE file.
4
5#ifndef CHROME_BROWSER_AUTOCOMPLETE_HISTORY_URL_PROVIDER_H_
6#define CHROME_BROWSER_AUTOCOMPLETE_HISTORY_URL_PROVIDER_H_
7
8#include <string>
9#include <vector>
10
11#include "base/compiler_specific.h"
12#include "base/synchronization/cancellation_flag.h"
13#include "chrome/browser/autocomplete/autocomplete_input.h"
14#include "chrome/browser/autocomplete/history_provider.h"
15#include "chrome/browser/autocomplete/history_provider_util.h"
16#include "chrome/browser/autocomplete/url_prefix.h"
17#include "chrome/browser/search_engines/search_terms_data.h"
18#include "chrome/browser/search_engines/template_url.h"
19
20class MessageLoop;
21class Profile;
22
23namespace history {
24class HistoryBackend;
25class URLDatabase;
26}
27
28// How history autocomplete works
29// ==============================
30//
31// Read down this diagram for temporal ordering.
32//
33//   Main thread                History thread
34//   -----------                --------------
35//   AutocompleteController::Start
36//     -> HistoryURLProvider::Start
37//       -> RunAutocompletePasses
38//         -> SuggestExactInput
39//         [params_ allocated]
40//         -> DoAutocomplete (for inline autocomplete)
41//           -> URLDatabase::AutocompleteForPrefix (on in-memory DB)
42//         -> HistoryService::ScheduleAutocomplete
43//         (return to controller) ----
44//                                   /
45//                              HistoryBackend::ScheduleAutocomplete
46//                                -> HistoryURLProvider::ExecuteWithDB
47//                                  -> DoAutocomplete
48//                                    -> URLDatabase::AutocompleteForPrefix
49//                                /
50//   HistoryService::QueryComplete
51//     [params_ destroyed]
52//     -> AutocompleteProviderListener::OnProviderUpdate
53//
54// The autocomplete controller calls us, and must be called back, on the main
55// thread.  When called, we run two autocomplete passes.  The first pass runs
56// synchronously on the main thread and queries the in-memory URL database.
57// This pass promotes matches for inline autocomplete if applicable.  We do
58// this synchronously so that users get consistent behavior when they type
59// quickly and hit enter, no matter how loaded the main history database is.
60// Doing this synchronously also prevents inline autocomplete from being
61// "flickery" in the AutocompleteEdit.  Because the in-memory DB does not have
62// redirect data, results other than the top match might change between the
63// two passes, so we can't just decide to use this pass' matches as the final
64// results.
65//
66// The second autocomplete pass uses the full history database, which must be
67// queried on the history thread.  Start() asks the history service schedule to
68// callback on the history thread with a pointer to the main database.  When we
69// are done doing queries, we schedule a task on the main thread that notifies
70// the AutocompleteController that we're done.
71//
72// The communication between these threads is done using a
73// HistoryURLProviderParams object.  This is allocated in the main thread, and
74// normally deleted in QueryComplete().  So that both autocomplete passes can
75// use the same code, we also use this to hold results during the first
76// autocomplete pass.
77//
78// While the second pass is running, the AutocompleteController may cancel the
79// request.  This can happen frequently when the user is typing quickly.  In
80// this case, the main thread sets params_->cancel, which the background thread
81// checks periodically.  If it finds the flag set, it stops what it's doing
82// immediately and calls back to the main thread.  (We don't delete the params
83// on the history thread, because we should only do that when we can safely
84// NULL out params_, and that must be done on the main thread.)
85
86// Used to communicate autocomplete parameters between threads via the history
87// service.
88struct HistoryURLProviderParams {
89  HistoryURLProviderParams(const AutocompleteInput& input,
90                           bool trim_http,
91                           const std::string& languages,
92                           TemplateURL* default_search_provider,
93                           const SearchTermsData& search_terms_data);
94  ~HistoryURLProviderParams();
95
96  MessageLoop* message_loop;
97
98  // A copy of the autocomplete input. We need the copy since this object will
99  // live beyond the original query while it runs on the history thread.
100  AutocompleteInput input;
101
102  // Should inline autocompletion be disabled? This is initalized from
103  // |input.prevent_inline_autocomplete()|, but set to false is the input
104  // contains trailing white space.
105  bool prevent_inline_autocomplete;
106
107  // Set when "http://" should be trimmed from the beginning of the URLs.
108  bool trim_http;
109
110  // Set by the main thread to cancel this request.  If this flag is set when
111  // the query runs, the query will be abandoned.  This allows us to avoid
112  // running queries that are no longer needed.  Since we don't care if we run
113  // the extra queries, the lack of signaling is not a problem.
114  base::CancellationFlag cancel_flag;
115
116  // Set by ExecuteWithDB() on the history thread when the query could not be
117  // performed because the history system failed to properly init the database.
118  // If this is set when the main thread is called back, it avoids changing
119  // |matches_| at all, so it won't delete the default match
120  // RunAutocompletePasses() creates.
121  bool failed;
122
123  // List of matches written by the history thread.  We keep this separate list
124  // to avoid having the main thread read the provider's matches while the
125  // history thread is manipulating them.  The provider copies this list back
126  // to matches_ on the main thread in QueryComplete().
127  ACMatches matches;
128
129  // Languages we should pass to gfx::GetCleanStringFromUrl.
130  std::string languages;
131
132  // When true, we should avoid calling SuggestExactInput().
133  bool dont_suggest_exact_input;
134
135  // The default search provider and search terms data necessary to cull results
136  // that correspond to searches (on the default engine).  These can only be
137  // obtained on the UI thread, so we have to copy them into here to pass them
138  // to the history thread.  We use a scoped_ptr<TemplateURL> for the DSP since
139  // TemplateURLs can't be copied by value. We use a scoped_ptr<SearchTermsData>
140  // so that we can store a snapshot of the SearchTermsData accessible from the
141  // history thread.
142  scoped_ptr<TemplateURL> default_search_provider;
143  scoped_ptr<SearchTermsData> search_terms_data;
144
145 private:
146  DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(HistoryURLProviderParams);
147};
148
149// This class is an autocomplete provider and is also a pseudo-internal
150// component of the history system.  See comments above.
151class HistoryURLProvider : public HistoryProvider {
152 public:
153  // Various values used in scoring, made public so other providers
154  // can insert results in appropriate ranges relative to these.
155  static const int kScoreForBestInlineableResult;
156  static const int kScoreForUnvisitedIntranetResult;
157  static const int kScoreForWhatYouTypedResult;
158  static const int kBaseScoreForNonInlineableResult;
159
160  HistoryURLProvider(AutocompleteProviderListener* listener, Profile* profile);
161
162#ifdef UNIT_TEST
163  HistoryURLProvider(AutocompleteProviderListener* listener,
164                     Profile* profile,
165                     const std::string& languages)
166    : HistoryProvider(listener, profile,
167          AutocompleteProvider::TYPE_HISTORY_URL),
168      params_(NULL),
169      cull_redirects_(true),
170      create_shorter_match_(true),
171      search_url_database_(true),
172      languages_(languages) {}
173#endif
174
175  // Returns a match corresponding to exactly what the user has typed.
176  // NOTE: This does not set the relevance of the returned match, as different
177  //       callers want different behavior. Callers must set this manually.
178  // This function is static so SearchProvider may construct similar matches.
179  static AutocompleteMatch SuggestExactInput(AutocompleteProvider* provider,
180                                             const AutocompleteInput& input,
181                                             bool trim_http);
182
183  // AutocompleteProvider
184  virtual void Start(const AutocompleteInput& input,
185                     bool minimal_changes) OVERRIDE;
186  virtual void Stop(bool clear_cached_results) OVERRIDE;
187
188  // Runs the history query on the history thread, called by the history
189  // system. The history database MAY BE NULL in which case it is not
190  // available and we should return no data. Also schedules returning the
191  // results to the main thread
192  void ExecuteWithDB(history::HistoryBackend* backend,
193                     history::URLDatabase* db,
194                     HistoryURLProviderParams* params);
195
196  // Actually runs the autocomplete job on the given database, which is
197  // guaranteed not to be NULL.
198  void DoAutocomplete(history::HistoryBackend* backend,
199                      history::URLDatabase* db,
200                      HistoryURLProviderParams* params);
201
202  // Dispatches the results to the autocomplete controller. Called on the
203  // main thread by ExecuteWithDB when the results are available.
204  // Frees params_gets_deleted on exit.
205  void QueryComplete(HistoryURLProviderParams* params_gets_deleted);
206
207 private:
208  enum MatchType {
209    NORMAL,
210    WHAT_YOU_TYPED,
211    INLINE_AUTOCOMPLETE,
212    UNVISITED_INTRANET,  // An intranet site that has never been visited.
213  };
214  class VisitClassifier;
215
216  ~HistoryURLProvider();
217
218  // Determines the relevance for a match, given its type.  If
219  // |match_type| is NORMAL, |match_number| is a number [0,
220  // kMaxSuggestions) indicating the relevance of the match (higher ==
221  // more relevant).  For other values of |match_type|, |match_number|
222  // is ignored.  Only called some of the time; for some matches,
223  // relevancy scores are assigned consecutively decreasing (1416,
224  // 1415, 1414, ...).
225  int CalculateRelevance(MatchType match_type, size_t match_number) const;
226
227  // Helper function that actually launches the two autocomplete passes.
228  void RunAutocompletePasses(const AutocompleteInput& input,
229                             bool fixup_input_and_run_pass_1);
230
231  // Given a |match| containing the "what you typed" suggestion created by
232  // SuggestExactInput(), looks up its info in the DB.  If found, fills in the
233  // title from the DB, promotes the match's priority to that of an inline
234  // autocomplete match (maybe it should be slightly better?), and places it on
235  // the front of |matches| (so we pick the right matches to throw away
236  // when culling redirects to/from it).  Returns whether a match was promoted.
237  bool FixupExactSuggestion(history::URLDatabase* db,
238                            const AutocompleteInput& input,
239                            const VisitClassifier& classifier,
240                            AutocompleteMatch* match,
241                            history::HistoryMatches* matches) const;
242
243  // Helper function for FixupExactSuggestion, this returns true if the input
244  // corresponds to some intranet URL where the user has previously visited the
245  // host in question.  In this case the input should be treated as a URL.
246  bool CanFindIntranetURL(history::URLDatabase* db,
247                          const AutocompleteInput& input) const;
248
249  // Determines if |match| is suitable for inline autocomplete.  If so, and if
250  // |params| is non-NULL, promotes the match.  Returns whether |match| is
251  // suitable for inline autocomplete.
252  bool PromoteMatchForInlineAutocomplete(HistoryURLProviderParams* params,
253                                         const history::HistoryMatch& match);
254
255  // Sees if a shorter version of the best match should be created, and if so
256  // places it at the front of |matches|.  This can suggest history URLs that
257  // are prefixes of the best match (if they've been visited enough, compared to
258  // the best match), or create host-only suggestions even when they haven't
259  // been visited before: if the user visited http://example.com/asdf once,
260  // we'll suggest http://example.com/ even if they've never been to it.
261  void PromoteOrCreateShorterSuggestion(
262      history::URLDatabase* db,
263      const HistoryURLProviderParams& params,
264      bool have_what_you_typed_match,
265      const AutocompleteMatch& what_you_typed_match,
266      history::HistoryMatches* matches);
267
268  // Sorts the given list of matches.
269  void SortMatches(history::HistoryMatches* matches) const;
270
271  // Removes results that have been rarely typed or visited, and not any time
272  // recently.  The exact parameters for this heuristic can be found in the
273  // function body. Also culls results corresponding to queries from the default
274  // search engine. These are low-quality, difficult-to-understand matches for
275  // users, and the SearchProvider should surface past queries in a better way
276  // anyway.
277  void CullPoorMatches(history::HistoryMatches* matches,
278                       HistoryURLProviderParams* params) const;
279
280  // Removes results that redirect to each other, leaving at most |max_results|
281  // results.
282  void CullRedirects(history::HistoryBackend* backend,
283                     history::HistoryMatches* matches,
284                     size_t max_results) const;
285
286  // Helper function for CullRedirects, this removes all but the first
287  // occurance of [any of the set of strings in |remove|] from the |matches|
288  // list.
289  //
290  // The return value is the index of the item that is after the item in the
291  // input identified by |source_index|. If |source_index| or an item before
292  // is removed, the next item will be shifted, and this allows the caller to
293  // pick up on the next one when this happens.
294  size_t RemoveSubsequentMatchesOf(history::HistoryMatches* matches,
295                                   size_t source_index,
296                                   const std::vector<GURL>& remove) const;
297
298  // Converts a line from the database into an autocomplete match for display.
299  AutocompleteMatch HistoryMatchToACMatch(
300      HistoryURLProviderParams* params,
301      const history::HistoryMatch& history_match,
302      MatchType match_type,
303      int relevance);
304
305  // Params for the current query.  The provider should not free this directly;
306  // instead, it is passed as a parameter through the history backend, and the
307  // parameter itself is freed once it's no longer needed.  The only reason we
308  // keep this member is so we can set the cancel bit on it.
309  HistoryURLProviderParams* params_;
310
311  // If true, HistoryURL provider should lookup and cull redirects.  If
312  // false, it returns matches that may be redirects to each other and
313  // simply hopes the default AutoCompleteController behavior to remove
314  // URLs that are likely duplicates (http://google.com <->
315  // https://www.google.com/, etc.) will do a good enough job.
316  bool cull_redirects_;
317
318  // Used in PromoteOrCreateShorterSuggestion().  If true, we may create
319  // shorter suggestions even when they haven't been visited before:
320  // if the user visited http://example.com/asdf once, we'll suggest
321  // http://example.com/ even if they've never been to it.
322  bool create_shorter_match_;
323
324  // Whether to query the history URL database to match.  Even if
325  // false, we still use the URL database to decide if the
326  // URL-what-you-typed was visited before or not.  If false, the only
327  // possible result that HistoryURL provider can return is
328  // URL-what-you-typed.  This variable is not part of params_ because
329  // it never changes after the HistoryURLProvider is initialized.
330  // It's used to aid the transition to get all URLs from history to
331  // be scored in the HistoryQuick provider only.
332  bool search_url_database_;
333
334  // Only used by unittests; if non-empty, overrides accept-languages in the
335  // profile's pref system.
336  std::string languages_;
337};
338
339#endif  // CHROME_BROWSER_AUTOCOMPLETE_HISTORY_URL_PROVIDER_H_
340