Yes,. On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 5:39 AM, Jonas Schwertfeger <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi there, > > Suppose you have a download service that downloads files > asynchronously. For each download intent received it will put the URL > of the file to download and the start ID into a job queue and return > START_REDELIVER_INTENT. A worker thread then processes that list and > calls stopSelf with the start ID it just processed. > > My question is: If the service's process gets killed and the service > restarted, will the service receive all the intents (with the URLs) it > hasn't called stopSelf on before it was killed or does the service > receive the last intent only? It seems the API docs are ambiguous on > this. > > The docs say > > "if this service's process is killed while it is started [...], then > it will be scheduled for a restart and the last delivered Intent re- > delivered to it again [...]", > > indicating that only the last intent gets redelivered (which would be > terrible in this use case), but they also say > > "The service will [...] be re-started if it is not finished processing > all Intents sent to it (and any such pending events will be delivered > at the point of restart)." > > Which is it now? > > Thanks, > -Jonas > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
