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| <ul><li><a href="#Introduction">Introduction</a></li><li><a href="#Comet_support">Comet support</a><ol><li><a href="#CometEvent">CometEvent</a></li><li><a href="#CometFilter">CometFilter</a></li><li><a href="#Example_code">Example code</a></li><li><a href="#Comet_timeouts">Comet timeouts</a></li></ol></li><li><a href="#Asynchronous_writes">Asynchronous writes</a></li></ul> | |
| </blockquote></td></tr></table><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"><tr><td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="Introduction"><strong>Introduction</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> | |
| <p> | |
| With usage of APR or NIO APIs as the basis of its connectors, Tomcat is | |
| able to provide a number of extensions over the regular blocking IO | |
| as provided with support for the Servlet API. | |
| </p> | |
| <p> | |
| <b>IMPORTANT NOTE: Usage of these features requires using the APR or NIO | |
| HTTP connectors. The classic java.io HTTP connector and the AJP connectors | |
| do not support them.</b> | |
| </p> | |
| </blockquote></td></tr></table><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"><tr><td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="Comet support"><!--()--></a><a name="Comet_support"><strong>Comet support</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> | |
| <p> | |
| Comet support allows a servlet to process IO asynchronously, receiving | |
| events when data is available for reading on the connection (rather than | |
| always using a blocking read), and writing data back on connections | |
| asynchronously (most likely responding to some event raised from some | |
| other source). | |
| </p> | |
| <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="CometEvent"><strong>CometEvent</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> | |
| <p> | |
| Servlets which implement the <code>org.apache.catalina.CometProcessor</code> | |
| interface will have their event method invoked rather than the usual service | |
| method, according to the event which occurred. The event object gives | |
| access to the usual request and response objects, which may be used in the | |
| usual way. The main difference is that those objects remain valid and fully | |
| functional at any time between processing of the BEGIN event until processing | |
| an END or ERROR event. | |
| The following event types exist: | |
| </p> | |
| <ul> | |
| <li>EventType.BEGIN: will be called at the beginning | |
| of the processing of the connection. It can be used to initialize any relevant | |
| fields using the request and response objects. Between the end of the processing | |
| of this event, and the beginning of the processing of the end or error events, | |
| it is possible to use the response object to write data on the open connection. | |
| Note that the response object and dependent OutputStream and Writer are still | |
| not synchronized, so when they are accessed by multiple threads, | |
| synchronization is mandatory. After processing the initial event, the request | |
| is considered to be committed.</li> | |
| <li>EventType.READ: This indicates that input data is available, and that one read can be made | |
| without blocking. The available and ready methods of the InputStream or | |
| Reader may be used to determine if there is a risk of blocking: the servlet | |
| should read while data is reported available. When encountering a read error, | |
| the servlet should report it by propagating the exception properly. Throwing | |
| an exception will cause the error event to be invoked, and the connection | |
| will be closed. | |
| Alternately, it is also possible to catch any exception, perform clean up | |
| on any data structure the servlet may be using, and using the close method | |
| of the event. It is not allowed to attempt reading data from the request | |
| object outside of the execution of this method.<br> | |
| On some platforms, like Windows, a client disconnect is indicated by a READ event. | |
| Reading from the stream may result in -1, an IOException or an EOFException. | |
| Make sure you properly handle all these three cases. | |
| If you don't catch the IOException, Tomcat will instantly invoke your event chain with an ERROR as | |
| it catches the error for you, and you will be notified of the error at that time. | |
| </li> | |
| <li>EventType.END: End may be called to end the processing of the request. Fields that have | |
| been initialized in the begin method should be reset. After this event has | |
| been processed, the request and response objects, as well as all their dependent | |
| objects will be recycled and used to process other requests. End will also be | |
| called when data is available and the end of file is reached on the request input | |
| (this usually indicates the client has pipelined a request).</li> | |
| <li>EventType.ERROR: Error will be called by the container in the case where an IO exception | |
| or a similar unrecoverable error occurs on the connection. Fields that have | |
| been initialized in the begin method should be reset. After this event has | |
| been processed, the request and response objects, as well as all their dependent | |
| objects will be recycled and used to process other requests.</li> | |
| </ul> | |
| <p> | |
| There are some event subtypes which allow finer processing of events (note: some of these | |
| events require usage of the org.apache.catalina.valves.CometConnectionManagerValve valve): | |
| </p> | |
| <ul> | |
| <li>EventSubType.TIMEOUT: The connection timed out (sub type of ERROR); note that this ERROR | |
| type is not fatal, and the connection will not be closed unless the servlet uses the close | |
| method of the event. | |
| </li> | |
| <li>EventSubType.CLIENT_DISCONNECT: The client connection was closed (sub type of ERROR). | |
| </li> | |
| <li>EventSubType.IOEXCEPTION: An IO exception occurred, such as invalid content, for example, | |
| an invalid chunk block (sub type of ERROR). | |
| </li> | |
| <li>EventSubType.WEBAPP_RELOAD: The web application is being reloaded (sub type of END). | |
| </li> | |
| <li>EventSubType.SESSION_END: The servlet ended the session (sub type of END). | |
| </li> | |
| </ul> | |
| <p> | |
| As described above, the typical lifecycle of a Comet request will consist in a series of | |
| events such as: BEGIN -> READ -> READ -> READ -> ERROR/TIMEOUT. At any time, the servlet | |
| may end processing of the request by using the close method of the event object. | |
| </p> | |
| </blockquote></td></tr></table> | |
| <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="CometFilter"><strong>CometFilter</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> | |
| <p> | |
| Similar to regular filters, a filter chain is invoked when comet events are processed. | |
| These filters should implement the CometFilter interface (which works in the same way as | |
| the regular Filter interface), and should be declared and mapped in the deployment | |
| descriptor in the same way as a regular filter. The filter chain when processing an event | |
| will only include filters which match all the usual mapping rules, and also implement | |
| the CometFiler interface. | |
| </p> | |
| </blockquote></td></tr></table> | |
| <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="Example code"><!--()--></a><a name="Example_code"><strong>Example code</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> | |
| <p> | |
| The following pseudo code servlet implements asynchronous chat functionality using the API | |
| described above: | |
| </p> | |
| <div align="left"><table cellspacing="4" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="./images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" height="1"><img src="./images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="./images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1"><img src="./images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#ffffff" height="1"><pre> | |
| public class ChatServlet | |
| extends HttpServlet implements CometProcessor { | |
| protected ArrayList<HttpServletResponse> connections = | |
| new ArrayList<HttpServletResponse>(); | |
| protected MessageSender messageSender = null; | |
| public void init() throws ServletException { | |
| messageSender = new MessageSender(); | |
| Thread messageSenderThread = | |
| new Thread(messageSender, "MessageSender[" + getServletContext().getContextPath() + "]"); | |
| messageSenderThread.setDaemon(true); | |
| messageSenderThread.start(); | |
| } | |
| public void destroy() { | |
| connections.clear(); | |
| messageSender.stop(); | |
| messageSender = null; | |
| } | |
| /** | |
| * Process the given Comet event. | |
| * | |
| * @param event The Comet event that will be processed | |
| * @throws IOException | |
| * @throws ServletException | |
| */ | |
| public void event(CometEvent event) | |
| throws IOException, ServletException { | |
| HttpServletRequest request = event.getHttpServletRequest(); | |
| HttpServletResponse response = event.getHttpServletResponse(); | |
| if (event.getEventType() == CometEvent.EventType.BEGIN) { | |
| log("Begin for session: " + request.getSession(true).getId()); | |
| PrintWriter writer = response.getWriter(); | |
| writer.println("<!doctype html public \"-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en\">"); | |
| writer.println("<head><title>JSP Chat</title></head><body bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\">"); | |
| writer.flush(); | |
| synchronized(connections) { | |
| connections.add(response); | |
| } | |
| } else if (event.getEventType() == CometEvent.EventType.ERROR) { | |
| log("Error for session: " + request.getSession(true).getId()); | |
| synchronized(connections) { | |
| connections.remove(response); | |
| } | |
| event.close(); | |
| } else if (event.getEventType() == CometEvent.EventType.END) { | |
| log("End for session: " + request.getSession(true).getId()); | |
| synchronized(connections) { | |
| connections.remove(response); | |
| } | |
| PrintWriter writer = response.getWriter(); | |
| writer.println("</body></html>"); | |
| event.close(); | |
| } else if (event.getEventType() == CometEvent.EventType.READ) { | |
| InputStream is = request.getInputStream(); | |
| byte[] buf = new byte[512]; | |
| do { | |
| int n = is.read(buf); //can throw an IOException | |
| if (n > 0) { | |
| log("Read " + n + " bytes: " + new String(buf, 0, n) | |
| + " for session: " + request.getSession(true).getId()); | |
| } else if (n < 0) { | |
| error(event, request, response); | |
| return; | |
| } | |
| } while (is.available() > 0); | |
| } | |
| } | |
| public class MessageSender implements Runnable { | |
| protected boolean running = true; | |
| protected ArrayList<String> messages = new ArrayList<String>(); | |
| public MessageSender() { | |
| } | |
| public void stop() { | |
| running = false; | |
| } | |
| /** | |
| * Add message for sending. | |
| */ | |
| public void send(String user, String message) { | |
| synchronized (messages) { | |
| messages.add("[" + user + "]: " + message); | |
| messages.notify(); | |
| } | |
| } | |
| public void run() { | |
| while (running) { | |
| if (messages.size() == 0) { | |
| try { | |
| synchronized (messages) { | |
| messages.wait(); | |
| } | |
| } catch (InterruptedException e) { | |
| // Ignore | |
| } | |
| } | |
| synchronized (connections) { | |
| String[] pendingMessages = null; | |
| synchronized (messages) { | |
| pendingMessages = messages.toArray(new String[0]); | |
| messages.clear(); | |
| } | |
| // Send any pending message on all the open connections | |
| for (int i = 0; i < connections.size(); i++) { | |
| try { | |
| PrintWriter writer = connections.get(i).getWriter(); | |
| for (int j = 0; j < pendingMessages.length; j++) { | |
| writer.println(pendingMessages[j] + "<br>"); | |
| } | |
| writer.flush(); | |
| } catch (IOException e) { | |
| log("IOExeption sending message", e); | |
| } | |
| } | |
| } | |
| } | |
| } | |
| } | |
| } | |
| </pre></td><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1"><img src="./images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="./images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" height="1"><img src="./images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="./images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td></tr></table></div> | |
| </blockquote></td></tr></table> | |
| <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="Comet timeouts"><!--()--></a><a name="Comet_timeouts"><strong>Comet timeouts</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> | |
| <p>If you are using the NIO connector, you can set individual timeouts for your different comet connections. | |
| To set a timeout, simply set a request attribute like the following code shows: | |
| <div align="left"><table cellspacing="4" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="./images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" height="1"><img src="./images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="./images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1"><img src="./images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#ffffff" height="1"><pre>CometEvent event.... event.setTimeout(30*1000);</pre></td><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1"><img src="./images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="./images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" height="1"><img src="./images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="./images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td></tr></table></div> or | |
| <div align="left"><table cellspacing="4" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="./images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" height="1"><img src="./images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="./images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1"><img src="./images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#ffffff" height="1"><pre>event.getHttpServletRequest().setAttribute("org.apache.tomcat.comet.timeout", new Integer(30 * 1000));</pre></td><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1"><img src="./images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="./images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" height="1"><img src="./images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td><td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="./images/void.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td></tr></table></div> | |
| This sets the timeout to 30 seconds. | |
| Important note: in order to set this timeout, it has to be done on the <code>BEGIN</code> event. | |
| The default value is <code>soTimeout</code> | |
| </p> | |
| <p>If you are using the APR connector, all Comet connections will have the same timeout value. It is <code>soTimeout*50</code> | |
| </p> | |
| </blockquote></td></tr></table> | |
| </blockquote></td></tr></table><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"><tr><td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="Asynchronous writes"><!--()--></a><a name="Asynchronous_writes"><strong>Asynchronous writes</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> | |
| <p> | |
| When APR or NIO is enabled, Tomcat supports using sendfile to send large static files. | |
| These writes, as soon as the system load increases, will be performed | |
| asynchronously in the most efficient way. Instead of sending a large response using | |
| blocking writes, it is possible to write content to a static file, and write it | |
| using a sendfile code. A caching valve could take advantage of this to cache the | |
| response data in a file rather than store it in memory. Sendfile support is | |
| available if the request attribute <code>org.apache.tomcat.sendfile.support</code> | |
| is set to <code>Boolean.TRUE</code>. | |
| </p> | |
| <p> | |
| Any servlet can instruct Tomcat to perform a sendfile call by setting the appropriate | |
| request attributes. It is also necessary to correctly set the content length | |
| for the response. When using sendfile, it is best to ensure that neither the | |
| request or response have been wrapped, since as the response body will be sent later | |
| by the connector itself, it cannot be filtered. Other than setting the 3 needed | |
| request attributes, the servlet should not send any response data, but it may use | |
| any method which will result in modifying the response header (like setting cookies). | |
| </p> | |
| <ul> | |
| <li><code>org.apache.tomcat.sendfile.filename</code>: Canonical filename of the file which will be sent as | |
| a String</li> | |
| <li><code>org.apache.tomcat.sendfile.start</code>: Start offset as a Long</li> | |
| <li><code>org.apache.tomcat.sendfile.end</code>: End offset as a Long</li> | |
| </ul> | |
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