Re: AbortChannelException terminates session

On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 09:52, Paul Andrews wrote:
> Hi again :-)
> 
> I have a message reply listener that throws an AbortChannelException in
> certain circumstances but this actually causes the session code to issue
> a terminate session request to the remote peer - when all I wanted to do
> was to terminate the channel.
> 
> A slight wrinkle with this is that my test code originally called
> session.close() immediately after the AbortChannelException was thrown,
> but in a different thread. This caused the session to deadlock.
> 
> - Paul

In the code I'm working on right now I have removed
AbortChannelException from the signature of the
MessageHandler.receiveMSG(). (MessageHandler is a new version of
MessageListener, the reason for a new interface was to provide a
migration path for profile writers.) While AbortChannelException made
some things easier when writing profiles I think it can be the source of
more problems than good.

BTW, I'm also considering removing the throws BEEPError from the
receiveMSG() method because there isn't a good method of notifying the
profile if there is a problem sending the ERR message from the BEEPError
exception. Instead profiles would call MessageMSG.sendERR() directly.

Any feedback on these changes is welcome and right now is the best time
since I am in the middle of making them.

--Huston 



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