A better way to do thread renaming

[Galder Zamarreño]

On Aug 25, 2010, at 8:17 AM, Neil Avery wrote:

> Hi Trustin,
> Thats great to hear - netty keeps on getting better.
> 
> Is is possible to have a '-' delimiter between the name parts?

+1, that makes it easier for grepping

> Regards,
> Neil.
> 
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 3:34 AM, "이희승 (Trustin Lee)" <trustin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 07/14/2010 04:46 PM, Galder Zamarreño wrote:
> >
> > On Jul 2, 2010, at 9:59 AM, 이희승 (Trustin Lee) wrote:
> >
> >> Service: New I/O, Old I/O, ...
> >> Category: server boss, server worker, client boss, client worker, ...
> >> Comment: local address, remote address, channel ID, ... (depending on
> >> transport)
> >>
> >> It might be a better idea to limit the allowed characters for service,
> >> category, and thread ID (no whitespace for example.)
> >
> > That's definitely a good idea. Think about grep. Quite often I grep by thread name and if it contains spaces, you have to start putting double quotes.
> 
> netty-trunk now allows only [a-zA-Z0-9]* for service/category names.
> 
> Thread ID has been split into parentId and id and each allows only
> [a-zA-Z0-9]* likewise.  The resulting default thread name looks like this:
> 
>    "NewIO ServerBoss #1 ([id: 0x00785d65, /0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:8080])"
>    "NewIO ServerWorker #1:1"
> 
> There's no restriction on comments - I thought it will be too much since
> it's for human primarily.
> 
> Please feel free to let me know if you have more nice ideas.
> 
> Cheers,
> Trustin
> 
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