Monitoring wrapped ThreadPoolExecutor returned from Executors

[Pavel Rappo]

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-Pavel

> On 6 Jan 2021, at 03:11, Tommy Ludwig <tludwig at vmware.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> In the Micrometer project, we provide metrics instrumentation of `ExectorService`s. For `ThreadPoolExecutor`s, we track the number of completed tasks, active tasks, thread pool sizes, task queue size and remaining capacity via methods from `ThreadPoolExecutor`. We are currently using a brittle reflection hack[1] to do this for the wrapped `ThreadPoolExecutor` returned from `Executors` methods `newSingleThreadExecutor` and `newSingleThreadScheduledExecutor`. With the introduction of JEP-396 in JDK 16, our reflection hack throws an InaccessibleObjectException by default.
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> I am not seeing a proper way to get at the methods we use for the metrics (e.g. `ThreadPoolExecutor::getCompletedTaskCount`) in this case. Is there a way that I am missing?
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> From the JavaDocs, the intention of the wrapping is to prevent changing the ThreadPool configuration. Our use case does not call for changing the thread pool configuration - we want to observe the ExecutorService (e.g. thread pool state) via getter methods for monitoring purposes.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tommy
> 
> [1] https://github.com/micrometer-metrics/micrometer/blob/25f120833f8b73e4bd7cf604831dfddf0112fe9c/micrometer-core/src/main/java/io/micrometer/core/instrument/binder/jvm/ExecutorServiceMetrics.java#L272-L301
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