Re: How to stop Java HTTP server

From:
Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:12:12 +0100
Message-ID:
<alpine.DEB.1.10.1010141249250.22804@urchin.earth.li>
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010, Shiladitya wrote:

I need a way to call httpServerExe.stop() from this thread.

So the main thread can be like this:

      httpServerExe.start();
      while(!terminated) {
         Thread.sleep(4000);
        }
        httpServerExe.stop();


That's the wrong way to do it. Rather than sleeping in a loop, this thread
should wait on a monitor, and threads which want to stop the server should
notify that monitor.

The main code would look like:

server.start();
synchronized (terminationLock) {
  while (!terminated) terminationLock.wait();
}
server.stop();

Code which wants to stop it can go:

terminated = true;
synchronized (terminationLock) {
  terminationLock.notify();
}

I have set up a handler for a URL (/terminateCommand). So if anyone send
a request to this URL, the terminated flag should be set and main thread
should stop the http server.

But I can't figure out how to set the flag from one of the handlers so
that main thread gets interrupted.


The handler has to have a reference to the place the flag lives. If the
flag is a static variable on a class, then it can go directly to the class
by name:

MainClass.terminated = true;
synchronized (terminationLock) {
  MainClass.terminationLock.notify();
}

Although of course it would be better to wrap that in a method:

MainClass.terminate();

class MainClass {
  private static boolean terminated;
  private static Object terminationLock;
  public static void terminate() {
  terminated = true;
  synchronized (terminationLock) {
  terminationLock.notify();
  }
  }
}

If it's on an object, then you will need to pass a reference to that
object to the handler somehow, perhaps when you construct it.

void main(String... args) {
  HttpServer server = HttpServer.create();
  ServerController controller = new ServerController(server);
  HttpHandler terminationHandler = new TerminationHandler(controller);
  server.createContext("/terminate", terminationHandler);
  new Thread(controller).start;
}

class ServerController implements Runnable {
  private HttpServer server;
  private boolean terminated;
  private Object terminationLock = new Object();
  public ServerController(HttpServer server) {
  this.server = server;
  }
  public void run() {
  server.start();
  synchronized (terminationLock) {
  try {
  while (!terminated) terminationLock.wait();
  }
  catch (InterruptedException e) {}
  }
  server.stop();
  }
  public void terminate() {
  terminated = true;
  synchronized (terminationLock) {
  terminationLock.notify();
  }
  }
}

You could dispense with the terminationLock by using the ServerController
itself to wait and notify on, but i tend to steer way from that, and use
private objects as locks, so that the wait/notify activity of the methods
can't 'leak' across the interface.

An even better way to do this, actually, would be with a
java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch with a count of one:

class ServerController implements Runnable {
  private HttpServer server;
  private CountDownLatch latch = new CountDownLatch(1);
  public ServerController(HttpServer server) {
  this.server = server;
  }
  public void run() {
  server.start();
  try {
  latch.await();
  }
  catch (InterruptedException e) {}
  server.stop();
  }
  public void terminate() {
  latch.countDown();
  }
}

tom

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