Re: high availability and failover for tcp/ip connections

From:
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sat, 18 May 2013 19:02:48 -0400
Message-ID:
<51980897$0$32107$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>
On 1/18/2013 11:00 AM, me 2 wrote:

I was wondering if anyone knew of a library that could help me with
some socket programming. Ideally, I'd be able to provide my main
program with a socket connection that would be able to go through a
list of potential targets for connection and then, if the socket died
unexpectedly, try to reach the next potential target. It has to
ultimately use a TCP socket and no I can't use a JMS server
product--but maybe a single part of the library. I saw something
similar to what I want for c# at
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/20106/Failover-Socket-Client and
I thought that I'd ask around and see if there was some cool library
that I just didn't know about.


It is a actually a tricky problem and I certainly do not like
the approach in the link above.

Below is some half finished (or 1/3 finished) code, that outlines
how I would attack the problem.

Note that making this code robust will certainly take an effort, but
I like the almost transparent usage model (even though the
implementation does violate some OO recommendations).

Example of client code:

List<MultiSocket.Destination> dest = new
ArrayList<MultiSocket.Destination>();
dest.add(new MultiSocket.Destination("localhost", 12345));
dest.add(new MultiSocket.Destination("localhost", 12346));
Socket s = new MultiSocket(dest);
OutputStream os = s.getOutputStream();
InputStream is = s.getInputStream();
int b;
os.write(1);
b = is.read();

Arne

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import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.net.InetAddress;
import java.net.Socket;
import java.net.SocketAddress;
import java.net.SocketException;
import java.nio.channels.SocketChannel;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

public class MultiSocket extends Socket {
    public static class Destination {
        private String host;
        private int port;
        public Destination(String host, int port) {
            this.host = host;
            this.port = port;
        }
        public String getHost() {
            return host;
        }
        public int getPort() {
            return port;
        }
    }
    private List<Socket> alls;
    private List<InputStream> allis;
    private List<OutputStream> allos;
    private int lastwrite;
    private byte[] buf;
    private int buflen;
    private class MultiInputStream extends InputStream {
        @Override
        public int read() throws IOException {
            if(lastwrite < 0) {
                throw new IllegalStateException("MultiSocket is only for
request-response");
            }
            while(alls.size() > 0) {
                try {
                    int b = allis.get(lastwrite).read();
                    buflen = 0;
                    return b;
                } catch (Exception e) {
                    remove(lastwrite);
                    allos.get(0).write(buf, 0, buflen); // additional code is
necessary to handle if this call throws an exception
                    lastwrite = 0;
                }
            }
            throw new IOException("No working sockets");
        }
    }
    private class MultiOutputStream extends OutputStream {
        @Override
        public void write(int b) throws IOException {
            while(alls.size() > 0) {
                try {
                    buf[buflen] = (byte)b;
                    buflen++;
                    allos.get(0).write(b);
                    lastwrite = 0;
                    return;
                } catch (Exception e) {
                    remove(0);
                    allos.get(0).write(buf, 0, buflen); // additional code is
necessary to handle if this call throws an exception
                    lastwrite = 0;
                }
            }
            throw new IOException("No working sockets");
        }
    }
    private void remove(int ix) {
        OutputStream os = allos.remove(ix);
        try {
            os.close();
        } catch(Exception ex) {
            // nothing to do
        }
        InputStream is = allis.remove(ix);
        try {
            is.close();
        } catch(Exception ex) {
            // nothing to do
        }
        Socket s = alls.remove(ix);
        try {
            s.close();
        } catch(Exception ex) {
            // nothing to do
        }
    }
    public MultiSocket(List<Destination> dest) throws IOException {
        alls = new ArrayList<Socket>();
        for(Destination d : dest) {
            alls.add(new Socket(d.getHost(), d.getPort()));
        }
        lastwrite = -1;
        buf = new byte[102400];
        buflen = 0;
    }
    @Override
    public InputStream getInputStream() throws IOException {
        allis = new ArrayList<InputStream>();
        for(Socket s : alls) {
            allis.add(s.getInputStream());
        }
        return new MultiInputStream();
    }
    @Override
    public OutputStream getOutputStream() throws IOException {
        allos = new ArrayList<OutputStream>();
        for(Socket s : alls) {
            allos.add(s.getOutputStream());
        }
        return new MultiOutputStream();
    }
    @Override
    public synchronized void close() throws IOException {
        while(alls.size() > 0) {
            remove(0);
        }
    }
    // move exception throwing stubs up as they get an implementation that
makes sense
    @Override
    public void connect(SocketAddress endpoint) throws IOException {
        throw new RuntimeException("Not supported by MultiSocket");
    }
    @Override
    public void connect(SocketAddress endpoint, int timeout) throws
IOException {
        throw new RuntimeException("Not supported by MultiSocket");
    }
    @Override
    public void bind(SocketAddress bindpoint) throws IOException {
        throw new RuntimeException("Not supported by MultiSocket");
    }
    @Override
    public InetAddress getInetAddress() {
        throw new RuntimeException("Not supported by MultiSocket");
    }
    @Override
    public InetAddress getLocalAddress() {
        throw new RuntimeException("Not supported by MultiSocket");
    }
    @Override
    public int getPort() {
        throw new RuntimeException("Not supported by MultiSocket");
    }
    @Override
    public int getLocalPort() {
        throw new RuntimeException("Not supported by MultiSocket");
    }
    @Override
    public SocketAddress getRemoteSocketAddress() {
        throw new RuntimeException("Not supported by MultiSocket");
    }
    @Override
    public SocketAddress getLocalSocketAddress() {
        throw new RuntimeException("Not supported by MultiSocket");
    }
    @Override
    public SocketChannel getChannel() {
        throw new RuntimeException("Not supported by MultiSocket");
    }
    @Override
    public void setTcpNoDelay(boolean on) throws SocketException {
        throw new RuntimeException("Not supported by MultiSocket");
    }
    @Override
    public boolean getTcpNoDelay() throws SocketException {
        throw new RuntimeException("Not supported by MultiSocket");
    }
    @Override
    public void setSoLinger(boolean on, int linger) throws SocketException {
        throw new RuntimeException("Not supported by MultiSocket");
    }
    @Override
    public int getSoLinger() throws SocketException {
        throw new RuntimeException("Not supported by MultiSocket");
    }
    @Override
    public void sendUrgentData(int data) throws IOException {
        throw new RuntimeException("Not supported by MultiSocket");
    }
    @Override
    public void setOOBInline(boolean on) throws SocketException {
        throw new RuntimeException("Not supported by MultiSocket");
    }
    @Override
    public boolean getOOBInline() throws SocketException {
        throw new RuntimeException("Not supported by MultiSocket");
    }
    @Override
    public synchronized void setSoTimeout(int timeout) throws SocketException {
        throw new RuntimeException("Not supported by MultiSocket");
    }
    @Override
    public synchronized int getSoTimeout() throws SocketException {
        throw new RuntimeException("Not supported by MultiSocket");
    }
    @Override
    public synchronized void setSendBufferSize(int size) throws
SocketException {
        throw new RuntimeException("Not supported by MultiSocket");
    }
    @Override
    public synchronized int getSendBufferSize() throws SocketException {
        throw new RuntimeException("Not supported by MultiSocket");
    }
    @Override
    public synchronized void setReceiveBufferSize(int size)
            throws SocketException {
        throw new RuntimeException("Not supported by MultiSocket");
    }
    @Override
    public synchronized int getReceiveBufferSize() throws SocketException {
        throw new RuntimeException("Not supported by MultiSocket");
    }
    @Override
    public void setKeepAlive(boolean on) throws SocketException {
        throw new RuntimeException("Not supported by MultiSocket");
    }
    @Override
    public boolean getKeepAlive() throws SocketException {
        throw new RuntimeException("Not supported by MultiSocket");
    }
    @Override
    public void setTrafficClass(int tc) throws SocketException {
        throw new RuntimeException("Not supported by MultiSocket");
    }
    @Override
    public int getTrafficClass() throws SocketException {
        throw new RuntimeException("Not supported by MultiSocket");
    }
    @Override
    public void setReuseAddress(boolean on) throws SocketException {
        throw new RuntimeException("Not supported by MultiSocket");
    }
    @Override
    public boolean getReuseAddress() throws SocketException {
        throw new RuntimeException("Not supported by MultiSocket");
    }
    @Override
    public void shutdownInput() throws IOException {
        throw new RuntimeException("Not supported by MultiSocket");
    }
    @Override
    public void shutdownOutput() throws IOException {
        throw new RuntimeException("Not supported by MultiSocket");
    }
    @Override
    public String toString() {
        throw new RuntimeException("Not supported by MultiSocket");
    }
    @Override
    public boolean isConnected() {
        throw new RuntimeException("Not supported by MultiSocket");
    }
    @Override
    public boolean isBound() {
        throw new RuntimeException("Not supported by MultiSocket");
    }
    @Override
    public boolean isClosed() {
        throw new RuntimeException("Not supported by MultiSocket");
    }
    @Override
    public boolean isInputShutdown() {
        throw new RuntimeException("Not supported by MultiSocket");
    }
    @Override
    public boolean isOutputShutdown() {
        throw new RuntimeException("Not supported by MultiSocket");
    }
    @Override
    public void setPerformancePreferences(int connectionTime, int latency,
int bandwidth) {
        throw new RuntimeException("Not supported by MultiSocket");
    }
    @Override
    public int hashCode() {
        throw new RuntimeException("Not supported by MultiSocket");
    }
    @Override
    public boolean equals(Object obj) {
        throw new RuntimeException("Not supported by MultiSocket");
    }
    @Override
    protected Object clone() throws CloneNotSupportedException {
        throw new RuntimeException("Not supported by MultiSocket");
    }
    @Override
    protected void finalize() throws Throwable {
        throw new RuntimeException("Not supported by MultiSocket");
    }
}

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