Just a quick question to the idea of adding more lifecycle states - are we 
still planning to move from our "homemade" lifecycle management to Guava as is 
describe in FLUME-966?

Jarcec

On Jun 6, 2012, at 8:06 AM, Juhani Connolly wrote:

> I've been burrowing into the lifecycle code recently and posted 
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-1257 regarding it(more 
> specifically, regarding inability to shutdown after a component gets stuck in 
> a starting loop).
> 
> Right now, to put it bluntly, the shutdown model feels incorrect, there are a 
> lot of places with a loop waiting for changes in state, that have an 
> exception handler for InterruptedException, but nothing will ever trigger 
> that interrupt. SIGINT is handled by the shutdown hook, which requests a 
> clean shutdown. If a clean shutdown doesn't succeed, everything just hangs in 
> limbo until you forcibly kill it.
> 
> I'd like to start some kind of discussion on how to go about handling this.  
> One  argument may be that it's just not a problem... so long as everything 
> starts and stops in a timely manner. Other simple kludges would be setting a 
> limit to number of times through each loop. Or we could just start sending 
> interrupts after a  predetermined delay.
> 
> Another possibility is adding more lifecycle states to better communicate 
> state(starting/stopping?) so that actions can be  aborted as necessary. This 
> would likely require all existing components to communicate these new states.
> 
> Feedback/opinions would be appreciated

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