Netty client: handling disconnections

[Christian Migowski]

Hi Murali,

there are many different approaches to reconnect, Trustin provided a
very straight-forward one in the Netty examples, see:

http://docs.jboss.org/netty/3.2/xref/org/jboss/netty/example/uptime/package-summary.html

hth,
regards,
christian!

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 4:06 AM, Murali Mohan Rath <mmrath at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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