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Ted Ross updated DISPATCH-5:
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Reporter: Sean Gallagher (was: Ted Ross)
> Execute a program when a message arrives addressed to a specific address
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> Key: DISPATCH-5
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DISPATCH-5
> Project: Qpid Dispatch
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Sean Gallagher
> Priority: Minor
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> Start a server (if not already running) when a message arrives at a
> pre-configured address.
> Broadly similar in intent to xinetd or http CGI scripts.
> My application has some large jobs that execute infrequently. It would be
> good if these could be run on demand rather than keeping a large process in
> memory that does nothing most of the time. Having the server restart when
> needed is also a good guard against resource leaks / selfish garbage
> collectors.
> There doesn't seem to be a convenient way to do this at present but I'm
> thinking it might be added relatively easily to Dispatch Router and I suspect
> many would find it useful.
> Working out locks / race conditions would be tricky but one simple idea I had
> would be to execute a user-supplied command line when a message arrives and
> then lockout further invocations for a configurable time period. This would
> give the new server time to startup and connect to Dispatch. Dispatch would
> not invoke the command if a link was available to deliver the message.
> A section could be added to qpid-dispatch.conf to configure this. e.g.
> on-demand
> { ## ## deliveries to this address will trigger the command if link does not
> already exist ## to: myserver/myservice ## ## command line to run ## run:
> myprogram ## ## delay after triggering the command before it may be retried
> (in response to a new delivery) ## lockout-interval: 60 }
> This idea could be further developed in many directions, what I've put here
> is the basics.
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