use repo for descriptions

2 files changed, 10 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/metrics/src/vespa/metrics/metric.cpp b/metrics/src/vespa/metrics/metric.cpp
index 30d063dac1f..355957d11da 100644
--- a/metrics/src/vespa/metrics/metric.cpp
+++ b/metrics/src/vespa/metrics/metric.cpp
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ Metric::Metric(const String& name,
                MetricSet* owner)
     : _name(Repo::metricId(name)),
       _mangledName(_name),
-      _description(description),
+      _description(Repo::descriptionId(description)),
       _tags(legacyTagStringToKeyedTags(tags)),
       _owner(nullptr) // Set later by registry
 {
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ Metric::Metric(const String& name,
                MetricSet* owner)
     : _name(Repo::metricId(name)),
       _mangledName(_name),
-      _description(description),
+      _description(Repo::descriptionId(description)),
       _tags(std::move(dimensions)),
       _owner(nullptr)
 {
@@ -222,8 +222,7 @@ Metric::addMemoryUsage(MemoryConsumption& mc) const
 {
     ++mc._metricCount;
     mc._metricName += mc.getStringMemoryUsage(getName(), mc._metricNameUnique);
-    mc._metricDescription += mc.getStringMemoryUsage(
-                                    _description, mc._metricDescriptionUnique);
+    mc._metricDescription += mc.getStringMemoryUsage(getDescription(), mc._metricDescriptionUnique);
     mc._metricTagCount += _tags.size();
     // XXX figure out what we actually want to report from tags here...
     // XXX we don't care about unique strings since they don't matter anymore.
@@ -232,13 +231,9 @@ Metric::addMemoryUsage(MemoryConsumption& mc) const
 }
 
 void
-Metric::updateNames(NameHash& hash) const
+Metric::updateNames(NameHash&) const
 {
-    Metric& m(const_cast<Metric&>(*this));
-    hash.updateName(m._description);
-    // Tags use vespalib::string which isn't refcounted under the hood and
-    // use small string optimizations, meaning the implicit ref sharing hack
-    // won't work for them anyway.
+    // not relevant anymore
 }
 
 void
diff --git a/metrics/src/vespa/metrics/metric.h b/metrics/src/vespa/metrics/metric.h
index a272c54a10f..c1adc15c28d 100644
--- a/metrics/src/vespa/metrics/metric.h
+++ b/metrics/src/vespa/metrics/metric.h
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ public:
     }
     vespalib::string getPath() const;
     std::vector<String> getPathVector() const;
-    const String& getDescription() const { return _description; }
+    const vespalib::string& getDescription() const { return Repo::description(_description); }
     const Tags& getTags() const { return _tags; }
     /** Return whether there exists a tag with a key equal to 'tag' */
     bool hasTag(const String& tag) const;
@@ -223,7 +223,9 @@ public:
     }
 
     /** Used by sum metric to alter description of cloned metric for sum. */
-    void setDescription(const String& d) { _description = d; }
+    void setDescription(const vespalib::string& d) {
+        _description = Repo::descriptionId(d);
+    }
     /** Used by sum metric to alter tag of cloned metric for sum. */
     void setTags(Tags tags) {
         _tags = std::move(tags);
@@ -296,7 +298,7 @@ private:
 protected:
     MetricNameId _name;
     MetricNameId _mangledName;
-    String _description;
+    DescriptionId _description;
     std::vector<Tag> _tags;
     MetricSet* _owner;