On Feb 8, 2013, at 3:35 PM, Dan Berindei <dan.berindei(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Galder Zamarreño <galder(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Hi all,
We've got a small class loading puzzle to solve in our JSR-107 implementation.
JSR-107 has a class called Caching which keeps a singleton enum reference (AFAIK, has
same semantics as static) to the systemt's CacheManagerFactory, which in our case it
would be InfinispanCacheManagerFactory:
https://github.com/jsr107/jsr107spec/blob/master/src/main/java/javax/cach...
A naive user of JSR-107 could decide to use this Caching class in an app server
environment and get a reference to the CMF through it, which could cause major
classloading issues if we don't protect ourselves.
Within out CMF implementation, we need to keep some kind of mapping which given a name
*and* a classloader, which can find the CacheManager instance associated to it.
This poses a potential risk of a static strong reference being held indirectly on the
classloader associated with the Infinispan Cache Manager (amongst other sensible
components...).
One way to break this strong reference is for CMF implementation to hold a weak reference
on the CM as done here:
https://github.com/galderz/infinispan/blob/t_2639/jsr107/src/main/java/or...
This poses a problem though in that the Infinispan Cache Manager can be evicted from
memory without it's stop/shutdown method being called, leading to resources being left
open (i.e. jgroups, jmx…etc).
The only safe way to deal with this that I've thought so far is to have a finalyze()
method in InfinispanCacheManager (JSR-107 impl of CacheManager) that makes sure this cache
manager is shut down. I'm fully aware this is an expensive operation, but so far is
the only way I can see in which we can avoid leaking stuff, while not affecting the actual
Infinispan core module.
I've found a good example of this in
https://github.com/jbossas/jboss-as/blob/master/controller-client/src/mai...
- It even tracks creation time so that if all references to InfinispanCacheManager are
lost but the ICM instance is not closed, it will print a warm message.
If anyone has any other thoughts, it'd be interesting to hear about them.
The Caching javadoc seems to prohibit stopping the CacheManagers without user
intervention
(
https://github.com/jsr107/jsr107spec/blob/master/src/main/java/javax/cach...):
* Also keeps track of all CacheManagers created by the factory. Subsequent calls
* to {@link #getCacheManager()} return the same CacheManager.
And in the javadoc of Caching.close()
(
https://github.com/jsr107/jsr107spec/blob/master/src/main/java/javax/cach...):
* All cache managers obtained from the factory are shutdown.
* <p/>
* Subsequent requests from this factory will return different cache managers than
would have been obtained before
* shutdown. So for example
* <pre>
* CacheManager cacheManager = CacheFactory.getCacheManager();
* assertSame(cacheManager, CacheFactory.getCacheManager());
* CacheFactory.close();
* assertNotSame(cacheManager, CacheFactory.getCacheManager());
* </pre>
We can't guarantee that getCacheManager() will return the same instance unless we
keep a hard reference to it in our CacheManagerFactory. So I think the only option is to
add a finalize() method to CacheManagerFactory that will stop all the CacheManagers if the
user didn't explicitly call Caching.close().
A finalize() in CacheManagerFactory does not solve the problem since there's still a
hard reference to the CacheManagerFactory impl from Caching, and as long as that's not
cleared, finalize() won't be executed, so you're still exposed to a potential
leak.
My initial solution in [1] didn't pass the TCK because the tests don't keep any
hard reference to the cache manager, so they could literally dissapear from the collection
cos there was no other hard cache manager reference.
An alternative way to solve this is to have a weak hash map with classloader as weak key:
private final Map<ClassLoader, Map<String, InfinispanCacheManager>>
cacheManagers =
new WeakHashMap<ClassLoader, Map<String,
InfinispanCacheManager>>();
However, for this to work, all other references that we keep within Infinispan of cache
managers have to also be weak. I've made this change and it all works fine now because
the TCK does have a reference to the classloader.
With this, the user can forget to the close the cache manager, and as long as no other
strong references to the classloader are kept, the Infinispan Cache Manager can be garbage
collected, and it's finalize() method called resulting in proper shutdown.
[1]
https://github.com/galderz/infinispan/blob/t_2639/jsr107/src/main/java/or...
Cheers
Dan
Cheers,
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http://infinispan.org
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