Thanks Jim. One problem I see with your solution is that it retries on
*every* exception, which is not what we want (or do we?). I'll give it a
try.
Hannes
Jim Redman wrote:
>
> The code in the exception clause of:
>
> public void write (byte[] request) throws IOException
>
> in XmlRpcClientLite does not seem to be effective in handling
> keep-alive timeouts. The solution that works for me is to repeat the
> call to:
>
> Object execute (String method,
> Vector params) throws XmlRpcException, IOException
> {
>
> the code we've been using looks like this:
>
> public Object execute (String method, Vector params)
> throws XmlRpcException, IOException
> {
> try {
> return executeInternal(method, params);
> } catch (Exception e) {
> System.err.println("Warning: Execute Internal (" + method + ")
> - " + e.getMessage() + " transient error - retrying");
> }
>
> // we'll give it two attempts, if it fails the first time it will
> // come here for a retry
> client = null; // make sure
> return executeInternal(method, params);
> }
>
>
> public Object executeInternal (String method, Vector params)
> <<<<----- the old execute method
> throws XmlRpcException, IOException
> {
>
> Unless someone has a better solution, I'd like to get the code into
> the distro so that I don't have to modify future releases of the library.
>
> Jim
>
