Netty: ClientBootstrap connection attempts
I need to connect to a server that I know will be listening on a port. It may take a while to get started though. Is it possible to force ClientBootstrap to try to connect for a specific number of attempts, or until a timeout is reached?
At the moment, if the connection is rejected, I get an exception, but it should try to connect in the background, for example respecting the bootstrap option "connectTimeoutMillis".
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You need to do it manually, but it's not difficult.
You can do something like this:
final ClientBootstrap bs = new ClientBootstrap(...);
final InetSocketAddress address = new InetSocketAddress("remoteip", 110);
final int maxretries = 5;
final AtomicInteger count = new AtomicInteger();
bs.connect(address).addListener(new ChannelFutureListener() {
public void operationComplete(ChannelFuture future) throws Exception {
if (!future.isSuccess()) {
if (count.incrementAndGet() > maxretries) {
// fails to connect even after maxretries do something
} else {
// retry
bs.connect(address).addListener(this);
}
}
}
});
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