Transform to Rest Performance

[philippguertler]

Gentics Mesh Version, operating system, or hardware.

• v0.10.2

After profiling a migration I noticed that one method was called much more often than expected and took about 15% of the total CPU time during the migration. The method is MicronodeImpl:getParentNode()

This method was called for every field in every micronode or node (about 20k invocations for a migration of about 650 nodes). It is called because HTML fields could need the project name if there is a link which has to be resolved.

There are a few Problems with that method:

• The parent is actually not needed at all. It is only used in String/HTML Field transformation if link resolving is performed. And even then, only the project name is fetched from the node.
• The algorithm for fetching the node is very inefficient, because it traverses all versions to find the newest version.

This very specific use case causes significant performance issues every time a node is transformed to JSON, which includes every read request for a node and also for schema migration.