Hi Folks, My name is Chris Mattmann: I'm a software engineer at JPL and a proud user of your excellent software! Kudos, I really like it a lot. I had sort of a newbie question, though and I was hoping that one of the fine developers on this list could answer it for me.
I see that there is no way to really set a timeout on the XML-RPC call in any of the examples on the web. Perusing through the code (I'm using the 2.1-dev version), I noticed that there was a means in the TransportFactory called CommonsTransportFactory to set a timeout. Basically let me explain to you the situation that I'm having. I have an XML-RPC file manager service that is responding to many requests to ingest files. The file manager service is basically a set of higher level wrapper operations around atomic lower level operations. Most of the methods that I expose from the file manager service are not synchronized, however the ingest method is. So, what I'm experiencing (I believe) is certain requests over XML-RPC from a client to my file manager service are getting dropped out because the file manager service blocks on ingest. My colleague mentioned to me he had experienced something similar on a different project, and that it was due to XML-RPC timing out waiting for the response from the server. So, I'm looking for a way to set the timeout on the response from the XML-RPC server. I think that something like: CommonsTransportFactory transportFactory = new CommonsTransportFactory(url); TransportFactory.setTimeout(my_timeout); XmlRpcClient client_ = new XmlRpcClient(url, transportFactory); Should work, but one thing that worries me is that the javadoc mentions that this class is not "thread safe". I'm wondering exactly what this means. Does this mean that I can't use the XmlRpcClient that uses a CommonsTransportFactory in a threaded application? If so, are there any other options out there for me to get the timeout set. This is a critical feature that I really need (make or break, basically). Please, let me know and thanks again for your help! Cheers, Chris Mattmann ______________________________________________ Chris A. Mattmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Staff Member Modeling and Data Management Systems Section (387) Data Management Systems and Technologies Group _________________________________________________ Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA Office: 171-266B Mailstop: 171-246 _______________________________________________________ Disclaimer: The opinions presented within are my own and do not reflect those of either NASA, JPL, or the California Institute of Technology.
