Yes, we have to retry connecting to the node but only a bounded number of times, after which we give up. If someone decides to use TCP, it is for guaranteed message delivery in which case the application needs to be informed.
What we need to decide is whether to let the application handle an exception or a return value? Karthik On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Leo Neumeyer <[email protected]> wrote: > Presumably the scenario is that we will retry so I guess we should log each > connection error when the exception is thrown. > > What can we do if we were to return false? We can always do this later once > we decide how to handle the error, no? > > -leo > > On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Karthik Kambatla > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > How should we go about handling connection failures (not being able to > > connect to) for a send(). > > > > We can either (1) throw java.net.ConnectException or (2) return false. In > > the second case, we need to modify the Emitter.send to return boolean. > > Comments? > > > > Thanks > > Karthik > > > > > > -- > > Leo Neumeyer (@leoneu) >
