Daniel Kulp [[email protected]] wrote:
> Actually, if it's the last MIME part that was asked for (that's a key point),
> it WILL stream right off the socket. It won't get buffered. If something
> causes it to have to search for another mime part (like asking the attachment
> collection it's size), then it would get buffered, but for a normal "single
> attachment through JAXB or SWA" type case, it would stream. Spent a lot of
> time getting that working correctly. :-)
But how can I specify the order of the MIME parts? Also, what is a "normal"
JAXB/SWA attachment? My entity has a DataHandler field, where the get-method
looks like this:
@Transient
@XmlMimeType("application/octet-stream")
public DataHandler getDataHandler() {
return dataHandler;
}
And the endpoint looks like this:
<jaxws:endpoint id="documentManager" implementor="#interceptedDocumentManager"
address="/DocumentManager">
<jaxws:properties>
<entry key="mtom-enabled" value="true" />
</jaxws:properties>
</jaxws:endpoint>
Could this cause the binary data to be buffered in its entirety in some cases?
> Really, with the way HTTP works, there isn't much you CAN do. The best you
> can do is grab the input stream and close it immediately. We'll call the
> close on the underlying http input stream. What happens then I'm unsure of.
>
> It COULD do one of two things:
> 1) Keep reading till the end of the stream anyway so the connection can be re-
> used with the Keep-Alive things.
>
> 2) Close the underlying socket which would result in a SocketClosed type
> exception on the server side. This would close the connection entirely so a
> future connection would require a new socket and everything to be re-setup.
OK. Well, since I will refactor my code and divide the entity into two (one for
metadata, and one for binary data), I won't have to handle any unwanted binary
data. But I'm still wondering what happens if I request the binary data entity,
but then for some reason never touch the InputStream (ie not reading from it,
and not closing it. Considering the setup above, what will happen? Will the
connection linger for a while before it times out? Can it cause some negative
side effects, like leaking memory?
/Jimi
