RFR: 8267140: Support closing the HttpClient by making it auto-closable [v14]

Jaikiran Pai jpai at openjdk.org
Wed Mar 29 01:03:43 UTC 2023


On Tue, 28 Mar 2023 19:01:38 GMT, Daniel Fuchs <dfuchs at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Please find here an RFE that makes the `java.net.HttpClient` auto-closeable.
>> 
>> The API has been modeled on `ExecutorService`.
>> 
>> HttpClient::close() is a graceful shutdown and will wait until all operations are terminated before returning.
>> If a request is in progress, and the caller doesn't pull the corresponding data (for instance, the request was sent with a BodyHandler.ofInputStream(), but the caller stopped reading the input stream) then close() may never return.
>> 
>> Therefore, additional methods similar to those present in `ExecutorService` are also proposed. In summary:
>> 
>> - `shutdown()`: initiate a graceful shutdown, but doesn't wait for termination. 
>> - `shutdownNow()`:  initiate an immediate shutdown, attempting to cancel all operations in progress. Doesn't wait for termination.
>> - `awaitTermination(Duration)`: await for termination within the given delay
>> - `isTerminated()` tells whether the client is terminated
>> 
>> New tests have been added to test the proposed behaviors.
>> 
>> HttpClient tests (new and old) are still stable.
>
> Daniel Fuchs has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains 21 additional commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - Merge branch 'master' into HttpClient-close-8267140
>  - Fixed minor typos in test comments
>  - Integrated feedback on tests
>  - Minor updates. Added some links
>  - Define operations. Clarify some of the things that may stall an orderly shutdown
>  - Update src/java.net.http/share/classes/java/net/http/HttpClient.java
>    
>    Fixed typo
>  - Add tests for default method implementations; Refactor HttpClientBuilderTest to close the clients it creates
>  - Rephrase IOException in send/sendAsync
>  - Added missing linkplain
>  - Specify that IOException is thrown if the client is terminated
>  - ... and 11 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/compare/fa931784...e6abd08b

Marked as reviewed by jpai (Reviewer).

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13019#pullrequestreview-1362110909


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