Hi there,

following scenario:

A MINA powered server application is reading data from network, which is sent by any client. While server is getting data, the connection get's broken. The read() from server is interrupted and exceptionCaught() in IoHandler is called.

Currently, my exceptionCaught() implementation looks like this:

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    @Override
public void exceptionCaught(IoSession session, Throwable throwable) throws Exception { logger.error("exception Caught. session={}. Exception:\n {}", new Object[]{Utils.longToHexString(session.getId()), Utils.getStackTraceAsString(throwable)}); logger.debug("Closing the session now! session={}", Utils.longToHexString(session.getId()));
        session.close(true);
    }
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Problem is, that I don't know how to differentiate between "real and important exceptions", which need to be logged more prominent and exception which might occur because of a client has been disconnected correctly (broken network connection). if a connection get's broken, I just get a generic IOException:

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Feb 21, 2012 5:10:20 PM de.root1.simon.Dispatcher exceptionCaught
Schwerwiegend: exception Caught. session=0x00000002. Exception:
java.io.IOException: Die Verbindung wurde vom Kommunikationspartner zurückgesetzt
at sun.nio.ch.FileDispatcherImpl.read0(Native Method)
at sun.nio.ch.SocketDispatcher.read(SocketDispatcher.java:39)
at sun.nio.ch.IOUtil.readIntoNativeBuffer(IOUtil.java:218)
at sun.nio.ch.IOUtil.read(IOUtil.java:191)
at sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.read(SocketChannelImpl.java:359)
at org.apache.mina.transport.socket.nio.NioProcessor.read(NioProcessor.java:280) at org.apache.mina.transport.socket.nio.NioProcessor.read(NioProcessor.java:44) at org.apache.mina.core.polling.AbstractPollingIoProcessor.read(AbstractPollingIoProcessor.java:695) at org.apache.mina.core.polling.AbstractPollingIoProcessor.process(AbstractPollingIoProcessor.java:668) at org.apache.mina.core.polling.AbstractPollingIoProcessor.process(AbstractPollingIoProcessor.java:657) at org.apache.mina.core.polling.AbstractPollingIoProcessor.access$600(AbstractPollingIoProcessor.java:68) at org.apache.mina.core.polling.AbstractPollingIoProcessor$Processor.run(AbstractPollingIoProcessor.java:1141) at org.apache.mina.util.NamePreservingRunnable.run(NamePreservingRunnable.java:64) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)
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How can I handle broken connections properly?!

br,
Alex


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