[rabbitmq-discuss] RPC Client side timeout

[Ben Hood]

Hi,

To get around situations where an RPC handler dies completely and this  
wasn't recovered on the server side, I applied the following patch to  
the Java to allow it time out when invoking an RPC.

HTH,

Ben



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> From: Ben Hood <0x6e6562 at gmail.com>
> Date: 5 December 2007 07:31:21 GMT
> To: rabbitmq-discuss at lists.rabbitmq.com
> Subject: RPC Client side timeout
>
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering what the best way is to do a client side time out  
> when waiting for the bottom half of an RPC.
>
> When you send the top half you can specify an expiration property,  
> but I can't see how this gets processed on the server side (from  
> looking at the processing code). Furthermore this is a string value  
> and I haven't seen an example of it or an explanation in the spec.
>
> On the client, one easy to way to do this would be just to add a  
> get() method on the blocking cell that passes in a timeout value,  
> but I'm not sure what should happen once it times out. Should the  
> consume be cancelled or should an appropriate property be set during  
> the initialization of the consume that indicates to the server that  
> it should clean unattended queues up after a while?
>
> Thx,
>
> Ben

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