Netty client: handling disconnections

[Murali Mohan Rath]

Hi All,
I searched the forum for what I am looking for could not get much
information. Here is what I  want to do.

I have a client which can open a single connection to server(not Netty). On
connect I am getting hold of the channel in a requester object as below

    @Override
    public void channelConnected(
            ChannelHandlerContext ctx, ChannelStateEvent e) {

        requester.setChannel(e.getChannel());
        try{
            requester.requestDatabaseStatus();
        }catch (IOException exception){
            logger.error("Error while requesting deal status",exception);
        }
    }


The requester object is used from various places in the application to send
request. Now my target is to handle the disconnections. Whenever there is a
disconnection I want to retry connecting every 10 seconds and once connected
the requester will be updated by the new channel.

I am not sure which is the best place to detect such disconnection and what
is the best approach to reconnect. Any information around this will be great
help.

FYI. a) I have a heartbeat handler to send a ping message if the connection
is idle for few seconds. b) while connecting I am setting keepAlive to true; 


Thanks,
Murali
 

 
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