This test has been failing intermittently since I updated it recently to cover
another similar issue. The test shares a ServerSocket instance across two
threads, and as such it should be a volatile field. The test should also ensure
that any thread that it starts completes before it continues its iteration.
With these simple changes I ran the test several thousand times, on a machine
that reproduced the intermittent failure 1 in 10 times, and it was never seen
to fail.
diff --git a/test/sun/net/www/http/HttpClient/StreamingRetry.java
b/test/sun/net/www/http/HttpClient/StreamingRetry.java
--- a/test/sun/net/www/http/HttpClient/StreamingRetry.java
+++ b/test/sun/net/www/http/HttpClient/StreamingRetry.java
@@ -37,13 +37,13 @@
public class StreamingRetry implements Runnable {
static final int ACCEPT_TIMEOUT = 20 * 1000; // 20 seconds
- ServerSocket ss;
+ volatile ServerSocket ss;
- public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
+ public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
(new StreamingRetry()).instanceMain();
}
- void instanceMain() throws IOException {
+ void instanceMain() throws Exception {
out.println("Test with default method");
test(null);
out.println("Test with POST method");
@@ -54,12 +54,13 @@
if (failed > 0) throw new RuntimeException("Some tests failed");
}
- void test(String method) throws IOException {
+ void test(String method) throws Exception {
ss = new ServerSocket(0);
ss.setSoTimeout(ACCEPT_TIMEOUT);
int port = ss.getLocalPort();
- (new Thread(this)).start();
+ Thread otherThread = new Thread(this);
+ otherThread.start();
try {
URL url = new URL("http://localhost:"; + port + "/");
@@ -77,6 +78,7 @@
//expected.printStackTrace();
} finally {
ss.close();
+ otherThread.join();
}
}
-Chris.
