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Tomas Mysik commented on NET-419:
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> No need to ping us. We see your message. We may not reply immediately, but
> your issue is still open.
Sorry, I did it since the issue is still unassigned (in NetBeans, this means
that the issue is not yet evaluated).
> The problem is [...]
Yes, exactly as I wrote it in my initial description. That's the reason why I
have reported this issue and I'm glad that I'm not the only one who doesn't
know how to use this method properly.
> you can call abort() at any time (and mostly it will work)
Unfortunately, this is likely not acceptable for us, I'm afraid. In such case,
sooner or later I would get a bug report and I won't be able to fix it so I
prefer not to provide this functionality at all.
> This needs a re-think of what should be done.
I don't know your code but have seen that you are able to keep-alive during
file transfer via repeatedly sending NOOP command after reading some chunk of
data, right? As a quick, not-so-great fix - what about to add a volatile [1]
boolean field transferAborted and check this field during file transfer as well?
Thanks a lot.
[1] Yes, I know that "sudden" use of volatile in not thread-safe code can be
confusing; but, with a proper comment (with reference to this bug perhaps)
added to such field, I think that it would be acceptable.
> Not possible to call FTPClient.abort() method correctly
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> Key: NET-419
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NET-419
> Project: Commons Net
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: FTP
> Affects Versions: 3.0
> Environment: java version "1.6.0_26"
> Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_26-b03)
> Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.1-b02, mixed mode)
> Linux cattie 2.6.38-10-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 28 15:07:17 UTC 2011
> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> Reporter: Tomas Mysik
>
> Unfortunately, it seems that there are difficulties of using FTPClient.abort()
> method [1][2]. Also, it is really not clear how the abort() method should be
> called/used at all - if from another thread (as I would expect) then there is
> a problem with
> thread-safety: FTPClient itself is not thread-safe so it means that some
> custom lock/monitor must be used; but this lock will prevent calling abort()
> on
> the FTPClient while it is downloading/uploading file since file
> upload/download
> itself is blocking...
> If I'm wrong and the abort() method works then an example in Javadoc would be
> more than welcome.
> Thanks a lot.
> [1]
> http://apache-commons.680414.n4.nabble.com/Net-FTPClient-abort-problem-td739542.html
> [2] http://www.tikalk.com/java/forums/apache-ftp-client-abort-transfer
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