[undertow-dev] SSE close task

[Stuart Douglas]

I have commented on the JIRA, but will include it here for anyone who is following:

The close listener is called, however due to the nature of SSE and TCP this behavior is not super intuitive.

Basically when the close() is called on the client side the client sends a FIN to the server, however as the server is not expecting any more data from the client this has no effect (in fact the client may have already sent a FIN if connection:close was sent).

>From the servers point of view the socket is still functioning normally, up until the point where it attempts to send some data. When this happens the client will response with an RST. Unfortunately the server still has no idea that the socket is broken, as the RST arrives after the data has been sent (unless the data is very large). When the server attempts to send for the second time after the client has closed the connection it will receive an IOException from the RST, the connection will be closed and the listener invoked.

If you want to detect this in a timely manner your only real option is some kind of heartbeat message, due to the way TCP and SSE work there is not really any other options.


Stuart

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nel Taurisson" <nel.taurisson at gmail.com>
> To: "Stuart Douglas" <sdouglas at redhat.com>
> Cc: undertow-dev at lists.jboss.org
> Sent: Tuesday, 24 November, 2015 8:31:35 AM
> Subject: Re: [undertow-dev] SSE close task
> 
> Ok, thanks, here's the JIRA with a failing test attached as a patch:
> 
> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/UNDERTOW-589
> 
> Nel
> 
> 2015-11-23 7:46 GMT+01:00 Stuart Douglas <sdouglas at redhat.com>:
> 
> > This sounds like a bug, can you file a JIRA?
> >
> > https://issues.jboss.org/projects/UNDERTOW
> >
> > Stuart
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Nel Taurisson" <nel.taurisson at gmail.com>
> > > To: undertow-dev at lists.jboss.org
> > > Sent: Monday, 23 November, 2015 5:00:10 PM
> > > Subject: [undertow-dev] SSE close task
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm playing with the SSE handler and I can't figure how the close task is
> > > working. I thought the close task would be invoked when the client closes
> > > the connection but it doesn't seem to be the case.
> > >
> > > I slightly modified the example code to register a close task when a
> > > connection is initiated, here's the code :
> > >
> > > ServerSentEventConnectionCallback callback = new
> > > ServerSentEventConnectionCallback() {
> > > @Override
> > > public void connected(ServerSentEventConnection connection, String
> > > lastEventId) {
> > > System.out.println("adding close task on connection...");
> > > connection.addCloseTask(channel -> System.out.println("goodbye cruel
> > > world..."));
> > > }
> > > };
> > > final ServerSentEventHandler sseHandler =
> > > Handlers.serverSentEvents(callback);
> > >
> > > It appears to me that the close task is only invoked when the server
> > stops,
> > > but now when the client closes. Is it the expected behavior ? If so, is
> > > there any other way to be notified of a client disconnection ?
> > >
> > > Thanks a lot.
> > >
> > > Nel
> > >
> > >
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