Cancel request

[jakob-o]

Hi,

would it be possible to cancel a request. My use case is a long polling client that upon shutdown should be able to cancel any currently active request without having to wait for the read timeout.

Regards

Jakob

[0crat]

@yegor256 please, pay attention to this issue

[yegor256]

@jakob-o I would recommend to use @Timeable annotation from jcabi-aspects: http://aspects.jcabi.com/annotation-timeable.html

[jakob-o]

Hi @yegor256,

if I am not mistaken this is not different (and probably worse) than setting the timeout on the request itself. What I would like to do is to explicitly cancel a running request (e.g. by closing the underlying socket). E.g.

// Thread 1
// Long polling request in a loop
Request request = new JdkRequest("http://www.example.com")
		.timeout(1000, 30000): // Long read timeout for long polling request
// Blocks until a response is sent / the read timeout kicks in
request.fetch();

// Thread 2
// System shutdown
// Let's assume this is encapsulated in a shutdown method
request.cancel(); // Closes the socket

Regards

Jakob