Why Channel.isConnected() returned true even though there is no UDP server?

[hezjing]

Hi

Here is my UDP client snippet,

        ChannelFactory factory = new
OioDatagramChannelFactory(Executors.newCachedThreadPool());
        ClientBootstrap bootstrap = new ClientBootstrap(factory);
        ChannelPipeline pipeline = bootstrap.getPipeline();
        pipeline.addLast("logger", new LoggingHandler());

        // connect to a non-exist IP address or port
        ChannelFuture future = bootstrap.connect(new
InetSocketAddress("localhost", 8899));
        future.awaitUninterruptibly();
        Channel channel = future.getChannel();

        // channel.isConnected() returned true?
        logger.debug("channel.isConnected() returned {}",
channel.isConnected());


when run, the channel.isConnected() returned true even though there is no
server listening at localhost:8899.

Is this an expected behavior?


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Hez
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