On 9 August 2012 21:31, Rajith Attapattu <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Robbie Gemmell <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > No, "connecttimeout" being unused isn't intended, but it appears to have
> > been that way since 0.6 went out, see:
> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/QPID-4051.
>
> So perhaps a bug ? perhaps we should fix this for the next release ?
>
>
Defintiely a bug, I actually meant to fix it for this release but you can
kinda tell from the comments on the JIRA that I went on holiday (<gasp>)
and forgot about it :P


> > "qpid.failover_method_timeout" is not intended to be used instead of it
> but
> > is instead a very recently introduced system property that can be used to
> > control a previously hard coded value in an entirely different area of
> > code. As someone once said in a commit message "hard coding makes coding
> > hard". This is a good example of one of those 'we dont really expect/want
> > people to use and so shouldnt bother to confuse them by documenting it'
> > system properties I just mentioned in my other email.
>
> However due to connecttimeout not working (or not used) it appears
> this property was somewhat useful to an end user.
> But I agree that if this isn't generally useful then better not to
> document it.
> Instead maybe we should fix connecttimeout.
>
>
Given that connecttimeout has been broken for 3 years before being noticed
I wouldn't bother to document this one (which actually does something
different, not normally all that useful to a user, particularly if they
need to timeout a connect() operation) but instead fix connecttimeout which
is documented and only ever mention this if its actually necessary.

We have put a connect() timeout in for 0.16 based on a user patch
(QPID-4047), albeit it isnt configurable due to QPID-4051 but in this case
thats still better than no timeout in the previous releases.


> P.S  I guess we will have to do some of these minor fixes until we
> provide a fully working new JMS client.
> The connect timeout seems a useful feature when used with the
> singlebroker situation.
>

Agreed, a connect() timeout could be useful with any connection situation
so we should definitely fix it.


> Rajith
>
> > Robbie
>
>
> >
> > On 9 August 2012 16:10, Rajith Attapattu <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> While looking up the code to answer a question from a user, I noticed
> >> that we don't use "connecttimeout" any where.
> >> This property is retrieved using the "getTimeout()" method in
> >> AMQBrokerDetails.java
> >>
> >> However the getTimeout() method (or the property) is not used any
> >> where else in the code.
> >> Instead it appears we use "qpid.failover_method_timeout" with a
> >> default of 120000
> >> (We should also document these system properties in the docs)
> >>
> >> Is this behaviour correct and as expected ?
> >> Could anybody who is familiar with this change/feature shed some light
> on
> >> this?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Rajith
> >>
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