Carter Kozak created HTTPCLIENT-2305: ----------------------------------------
Summary: Proposal: SSLConnectionSocketFactory refactor to allow custom timer metrics on socket.connect Key: HTTPCLIENT-2305 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-2305 Project: HttpComponents HttpClient Issue Type: Improvement Components: HttpClient (classic) Affects Versions: 5.2.1 Reporter: Carter Kozak I'd like to add a timer metric around socket.connect in one of my classic blocking clients. Usually, I can implement such a thing by subclassing or introducing a delagating implementation, adding a small piece of code to record metrics before delegating to the original implementation -- this works incredibly well for PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager [here|https://github.com/palantir/dialogue/blob/cc36ec0494dc19db6d66be0cdbefbe34af2a3283/dialogue-apache-hc5-client/src/main/java/com/palantir/dialogue/hc5/InstrumentedPoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.java#L121-L141], for example, which covers the full connect + handshake process across all ipaddrs resolved for the provided hostname. Unfortunately, it's quite a bit more challenging to implement similar metrics over individual `Socket.connect` calls because they occur within a single large and complex method in SSLConnectionSocketFactory, which must delegate to other private methods: https://github.com/apache/httpcomponents-client/blob/19f3922b37369431d379ce57fa187740b22436cf/httpclient5/src/main/java/org/apache/hc/client5/http/ssl/SSLConnectionSocketFactory.java#L223-L266 Proposal: I would like to introduce a new method along these lines: {code:java} void connectSocket( Socket sock, Timeout connectTimeout, HttpContext context) throws IOException {code} This way I can override the method and delegate to the builtin implementation, while timing only the socket.connect component of connection establishment. Open questions: 1. Would you accept such a change? 2. The proposed example above uses the 'connectSocket' method name which would be overloaded with existing methods on ConnectionSocketFactory. Perhaps a more specific name like 'connectSocketTo' would be helpful here? Either way, I would need to provide javadoc describing the guarantee that only 'socket.connect' is handled. 3. Should such a new method be added as a default interface method on ConnectionSocketFactory, or a new protected method on the SSLConnectionSocketFactory implementation? Updating the implementation is the simpler change, but providing the method on the interface may be more extensible. Feedback is always appreciated, thanks! -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.20.10#820010) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@hc.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@hc.apache.org