On Wed, 16 Jun 2021 07:56:11 GMT, Michael McMahon <micha...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> This fixes a problem where the listener methods of a WebSocket client were 
> being invoked by the Selector manager thread, which is problematic, because 
> if the implementation of any of these methods tries to do any blocking work, 
> this impacts other http activity, and if the blocking work is a http client 
> call, then a hang can result. The fix makes the HttpClient's executor 
> available to WebSocketImpl and that is used to offload the listener 
> invocations.
> 
> The fix also adds a more comprehensive test framework for WebSockets (in 
> WebSocketServer). Up to now we just had a limited server side in the tests 
> that can only do the handshake. This change adds an API and implementation 
> for server's to receive websocket messages and send replies back to clients. 
> To implement this, the server hooks into WebSocket's Frame, MessageEncoder 
> and MessageDecoder classes. Therefore, the implementations of these classes 
> had to be modified to allow for the encoding of server generated messages and 
> the decoding of client generated messages. The only difference between client 
> and server in this respect relates to payload masking which is only done for 
> messages sent from client to server.
> 
> There's a couple of warts that I wasn't sure what to do with. 1) There is 
> already a copy of the Frame implementation class in the test hierarchy. I 
> presume this is used by other tests, but that implementation is not used by 
> this change. 2) The WebSocketServer is based on the existing 
> DummyWebSocketServer class which is used by other tests. I can't see any easy 
> way to refactor/combine these implementations.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Michael.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 2d088fa9
Author:    Michael McMahon <micha...@openjdk.org>
URL:       
https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/commit/2d088fa91d18252a801db3b84ff87e261d63ebd4
Stats:     1066 lines in 12 files changed: 1054 ins; 0 del; 12 mod

8268294: Reusing HttpClient in a WebSocket.Listener hangs.

Reviewed-by: dfuchs

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/4506

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