This is ticket: https://github.com/akka/akka/issues/13861 and it has been confirmed that it is to be improved. A good way to make things happen is to submit a pull request ;-)
Cheers, Patrik On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 5:11 AM, Chad Selph <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry to hi-jack this 2 month old thread; but I actually had the same > problem and having it in "DEBUG" log isn't quite enough for me. > > Basically there's a feature of my app that could use the failure mode for > diagnostics: "timeout" in our use-case typically means someone forgot to > open their firewall where "connection refused" means we probably have the > wrong connection information. Ideally, this would get surfaced in my GUI, > instead of someone needing to ping/telnet/netcat on the terminal to > disambiguate these cases. > > Not absolutely critical, but just thought I'd add some feedback in favor > of adding this to the ConnectionFailed case class. > > > On Tuesday, April 8, 2014 8:29:27 AM UTC-7, Andrew Charles wrote: >> >> I'm building a simple load testing application that uses akka to connect >> to a server via TCP. I am using the examples provided for connecting to a >> TCP endpoint in the akka IO docs. >> >> One thing I immediately run into is that while the system will tell you >> that a connection attempt has failed, there is no way to access the reason >> it failed. After looking at the source code for TcpOutgoingConnection, it >> looks like it is simply output to the DEBUG level in akka and that's it. >> >> Here is my code for handling a connection failure: >> >> case CommandFailed(c: Connect) => >> println(s"Connect failed to $remote. Reason: ${c.failureMessage}. Will >> try again in 30 seconds") >> >> This simply tells me CommandFailed(Connect) without giving me a detailed >> reason, such as "connection refused". >> >> Perhaps I'm missing something here, but is there a way to get to this >> information so I can display it on the console without having to force akka >> into DEBUG log mode? >> >> Thanks for any assistance! >> > -- > >>>>>>>>>> Read the docs: http://akka.io/docs/ > >>>>>>>>>> Check the FAQ: > http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/additional/faq.html > >>>>>>>>>> Search the archives: https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Akka User List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Patrik Nordwall Typesafe <http://typesafe.com/> - Reactive apps on the JVM Twitter: @patriknw <http://www.scaladays.org/> -- >>>>>>>>>> Read the docs: http://akka.io/docs/ >>>>>>>>>> Check the FAQ: >>>>>>>>>> http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/additional/faq.html >>>>>>>>>> Search the archives: https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Akka User List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
