how to use Channel.connect()

[Trustin Lee]

Hi Christian,

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Christian Migowski
<chrismfwrd at gmail.com> wrote:
> When I try to use Channel.connect(Socketaddress), I always get a
> ChannelClosedException. There seem to be no open() in the Netty
> Channel, so how can I revive a channel to reconnect it?

If a ClientSocketChannel is disconnected once, it's closed and cannot
be reused.  That's why you are getting a ChannelClosedException.  You
have to create a new Channel.  There's no Channel.open() because all
Channels are open when it's created.

There's a plan to implement a meta-transport that allows reusing a Channel:

  * https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/NETTY-70

Any contribution appreciated! :)

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