On 1 March 2017 at 14:31, Kai Hudalla <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > we are working on the Eclipse Hono project where we use vertx-proton and > (implicitly) proton-j under the hood for exchanging large amounts of messages > using AMQP 1.0. > > During our tests I stumbled across the way that proton-j seems to handle link- > credit being exchanged via FLOWs. > My understanding is the following: > > Assuming that we have a link established between a Receiver (r) and a Sender > (s) > with a current link-credit of 4 and a delivery count of 20 on both sides. > > When invoking r.flow(6), the given credit (6) is _added_ to the receiver's > current credit resulting in r.getCredit() returning 10. > > When the FLOW is then flushed to the sender, the sender seems to _add_ the > link- > credit from the FLOW to its already existing credit. Analogously, this > results in > s.getCredit() now returning 10.
Correct. In proton the flow(credits) method grants additional credits. > > With this approach, it doesn't seem to be possible to stop the sender from > sending messages. The only thing a receiver can do is to wait until the sender > has used up all its credit (which may be a lot given that with the current > approach the sender's credit can pile up substantially). > > Or am I mistaken? Granting credits is essentially giving the sender ability to send that many messages. If you are controlling credit, any 'pile up' of credit at the sender is one that you create yourself - if you dont want the sender to be able to send more than a certain number of messages at a given time, dont allow more than that number of credits to be outstanding at the time. One thing you may not be aware of is you can drain the link of existing credit, which essentially asks the sender to send what they can (something they typically will have already done if they have credit and anything to send) then spontaneously advance the delivery count to the extent needed to use up all outstanding credit. > > Also, I cannot find the code where the link credit is actually updated from a > FLOW received from a Receiver. Can you point me to the right class? > TransportSender is probably what you want. > Regards, > Kai > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
