Intern IndexFieldCapabilities Type String on Read

server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/fieldcaps/IndexFieldCapabilities.java

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamInput;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamOutput;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.Writeable;
+import org.elasticsearch.common.util.StringLiteralDeduplicator;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.util.Map;
@@ -50,7 +51,7 @@ public class IndexFieldCapabilities implements Writeable {
 
     IndexFieldCapabilities(StreamInput in) throws IOException {
         this.name = in.readString();
-        this.type = in.readString();
+        this.type = StringLiteralDeduplicator.INSTANCE.deduplicate(in.readString());
         this.isMetadatafield = in.readBoolean();
         this.isSearchable = in.readBoolean();
         this.isAggregatable = in.readBoolean();

server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/util/StringLiteralDeduplicator.java

@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright Elasticsearch B.V. and/or licensed to Elasticsearch B.V. under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements. Licensed under the Elastic License
+ * 2.0 and the Server Side Public License, v 1; you may not use this file except
+ * in compliance with, at your election, the Elastic License 2.0 or the Server
+ * Side Public License, v 1.
+ */
+package org.elasticsearch.common.util;
+
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
+import org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.ConcurrentCollections;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+
+/**
+ * A cache in front of Java's string interning. This method assumes that it is only called with strings that are already part of the
+ * JVM's string pool so that interning them does not grow the pool. Calling it with strings not in the interned string pool is not
+ * advisable as its performance may deteriorate to slower than outright calls to {@link String#intern()}.
+ */
+public final class StringLiteralDeduplicator {
+
+    private static final Logger logger = LogManager.getLogger(StringLiteralDeduplicator.class);
+
+    private static final int MAX_SIZE = 1000;
+
+    public static final StringLiteralDeduplicator INSTANCE = new StringLiteralDeduplicator();
+
+    private final Map<String, String> map = ConcurrentCollections.newConcurrentMapWithAggressiveConcurrency();
+
+    private StringLiteralDeduplicator() {
+    }
+
+    public String deduplicate(String string) {
+        final String res = map.get(string);
+        if (res != null) {
+            return res;
+        }
+        final String interned = string.intern();
+        if (map.size() > MAX_SIZE) {
+            boolean cleared = false;
+            synchronized (this) {
+                if (map.size() > MAX_SIZE) {
+                    map.clear();
+                    cleared = true;
+                }
+            }
+            if (cleared) {
+                logger.debug("clearing intern cache");
+            }
+        }
+        map.put(interned, interned);
+        return interned;
+    }
+}