[FLINK-10415] RestClient does not react to lost connection

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.5.4, 1.6.1, 1.7.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.5, 1.6.2, 1.7.0
• Component/s: REST
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Till Rohrmann
• Reporter: Till Rohrmann
• Created: 25/Sep/18 09:03
• Updated: 28/Sep/18 09:37
• Resolved: 28/Sep/18 09:37

Description

While working on FLINK-10403, I noticed that Flink's RestClient does not seem to react to a lost connections in time. When sending a request to the current leader it happened that the leader was killed just after establishing the connection. Then the RestClient did not fail the connection and was stuck in writing a request or retrieving a response from the lost leader. I'm wondering whether we should introduce a ReadTimeoutHandler and WriteTimeoutHandler to handle these problems.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #6763