The following comment has been added to this issue:

     Author: David Farb
    Created: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 2:22 PM
       Body:
My preference would be fail() goes up the stack as in:

    public void fail() {
        ... do whats needed.
        up.fail();
    }

and the existing teardown() goes down the stack:

    public void teardown() {
       ... do whats needed
       down.teardown();
    }

When the fail gets to the top of the stack, the topmost 'protocol' informs what 
ever is above it (an HTTP controller, and EJB interface, ...) that failure has 
occurred, it does whatever cleanup it needs (destroys the user's session, 
disconnect the user from the database, logs the user out, rolls back 
transactions...). And part of the clean up is to call teardown() on the top 
protocol in the stack. 

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        Key: GERONIMO-373
    Summary: Percolate errors from SocketProtocol up the stack
       Type: Improvement

     Status: Unassigned
   Priority: Major

    Project: Apache Geronimo
 Components: 
             general

   Assignee: 
   Reporter: David Farb

    Created: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 9:42 AM
    Updated: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 2:22 PM
Environment: All environments

Description:
o.a.g.network.protocol.SocketProtocol does not percolate a client error or 
exception up the protocol stack when the client disconnects.

When serviceRead in SocketProtocol gets an IOException or some other error, the 
socketChannel is closed, but the up protocol is not informed.

Calling the teardown method of the up protocol is probably not an appropriate 
way to handle these exceptions. The teardown method should be called by the 
creator of the protocol stack. Instead, the exception/error should percolate up 
the protocol stack to the creator (via some sort of callback mechanism) which 
should then remove the stack and associated information from the server 
environment. 

Either a new method reserved for this could be defined in the Protocol 
interface (up.handleException(Throwable t)) or sending a null, empty or 
specially marked packet via up.sendUp(UpPacket upPacket) could be implemented.

Since in most cases the server is waiting for a client response, if the client 
goes away, server components need to be informed of this fact so the server 
side objects can be cleaned up. There is usually no way to recover these 
objects, hence they are a memory leak.

I would be happy to submit a fix for this, but I would appreciate feedback on 
the most appropriate way to do it.

Thanks
David Farb







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