Ok, that makes sense I'll make it a property, that should fix the test failures, the BindException will remain uncaught by default.
----- Original message ----- > > Only thing is, people do occasionally use unicast discovery. For > instance, the Amazon cloud doesn’t support multicast (that may have > changed since I looked into it). So in those cases, if you can’t come > up on the chosen port, it is actually a failure. > > So I’d make the automatic failover feature optional, disabled by > default. Seems like it’s primarily an issue in the integration tests. > > Cheers, > > Greg. > > On Feb 21, 2014, at 7:38 PM, Peter Firmstone > <peter.firmst...@zeus.net.au> wrote: > > > I'm currently getting a number of test failures where a port passed in > > by configuration is already in use. If the port specified is 0, then > > an arbitrary port is selected if 4160 is not available. > > > > However Reggie throws an exception during construction if a configured > > port is in use. > > > > I'd like to change Reggie to use an arbitrary port if a configured > > port is in use, this then allows an admin to try a range of ports, > > using DiscoveryAdmin, so a port in use failure isn't terminal, but > > instead a minor inconvenience. > > > > Regards, > > > > Peter. > > > > net.jini.discovery.DisoveryAdmin states: > > > > /** > > * Changes the number of the port on which the lookup service is > > currently * listening for unicast discovery queries to the given port > > number. * If a value of zero is input, then the lookup service will > > first try * to listen on the standard unicast discovery port, but if > > that fails, * the lookup service will listen on an arbitrary port. > > * > > * @param port <code>int</code> representing the new port number on > > which * the lookup service should listen for unicast > > discovery * queries. > > * > > * @throws java.io.IOException because an invocation of this method will > > * result in the re-initiation of the unicast discovery > > process, > > * which can throw an <code>IOException</code> when socket > > * allocation occurs. > > * > > * @throws java.rmi.RemoteException typically, this exception occurs > > when * there is a communication failure between the client > > and > > the * server. > > */ > > public void setUnicastPort(int port) throws IOException, > > RemoteException; } >