Releasing the connection is managed by the aptly named ConnectionManager. Consuming the entity (ultimately closing the InputStream) indicates that your usage of the current connection is complete. The ConnectionManager will then decide what to do with the connection. Read section 2.2 of [2] where connection persistence is discussed. It's highly likely that your ConnectionManager is keeping this connection open for future requests.
If you must have the connection released, take a look at setting a ConnectionKeepAliveStrategy on the HttpClient. Set the KeepAliveDuration to -1, and ensure you clean up your entities. mn On Jan 31, 2012, at 9:07 AM, Mohit Anchlia wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 8:24 AM, Matt Narrell <[email protected]> wrote: >> You must consume the HttpEntity in every case, even if there is an >> exception, or you will leak connections from your ConnectionManager's pool. >> >> You can consume entities via: >> >> * Calling any of the EntityUtils.* methods. > > But from looking at the code it looks like thatr > "EntityUtils.toByteArray(entity), " also closes the stream. Does that > release connection? >> * Using a org.apache.http.impl.client.BasicResponseHandler (or any >> org.apache.http.client.ResponseHandler implementation that consumes the >> HttpEntity). >> * Calling abort() on the HttpUriRequest in case of an exception. >> See [1] for more information. >> >> Do not call releaseConnection explicitly (unless you're implementing a >> ConnectionManager or working at low levels). Doing so may conflict with any >> Keep-Alive strategies or connection persistence you might use. See [2], >> section 2.8 for more information. >> >> [1] >> http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/tutorial/html/fundamentals.html >> [2] http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/tutorial/html/connmgmt.html >> >> On Jan 30, 2012, at 10:33 AM, Mohit Anchlia wrote: >> >>> HttpClient 4.1.2 - I am using Multithreaded connection manager. Do I >>> need to explicitly call releaseConnection on this? >>> >>> Also, after every http request I am calling >>> EntityUtils.toByteArray(entity), would it release connection or is >>> this the right way to release connection? >>> >>> I am seeing some wierd behaviour and want to undersand this little more. >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
