Hi Will,

On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 4:19 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a question about the Circuit Breaker's behaviour, specifically how
> the callTimeout parameter interacts with failures being counted
>
> It seems that the Circuit Breaker doesn't register a failure until the
> call is completed, rather than when the call takes longer than the
> callTimeout duration. I'm wondering if this is the intended behaviour.
>
>      val breaker =
>         new CircuitBreaker(context.system.scheduler,
>           maxFailures = 1,
>           callTimeout = 1.seconds,
>           resetTimeout = 10.seconds).onOpen(log.debug("onOpen"))
>
>       breaker.withCircuitBreaker(
>           Future {
>             Thread.sleep(10000) //10 seconds
>           }
>         )
>
> In the code above, the Circuit Breaker won't register a failure, and
> transition to the open state, until the call is finished(10 seconds),
> rather than when the call surpasses the callTimeout duration(1 second). I'm
> wondering if this is the intended behaviour, as I assumed that it would
> register a failure as soon as the call surpasses the callTimeout duration.
>

Good point. That would require scheduling a timeout for each call, but that
is probably what it should do. Please open a
ticket<http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/project/issue-tracking.html>
.

Thanks,
Patrik


>
> -Will
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