[HTTPCORE-369] Release BasicNIOConnPool connections per HttpHost

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 4.3
• Fix Version/s: 4.4.1
• Component/s: Documentation, HttpCore NIO
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Michael Nitschinger
• Created: 16/Dec/13 08:27
• Updated: 14/Mar/15 15:55
• Resolved: 14/Mar/15 15:55

Description

Hi Folks,

I'm not sure if this is just missing in the documentation or if its not possible at all, so I wanted to bring it up and discuss.

I'm firing out requests through the BasicNIOConnPool and use a List<HttpHost> do to that in a round-robin fashion - kinda. Now it could happen that this list changes so new hosts get added or old nodes removed. Adding new ones is not a problem since sockets get opened on the fly, but I'm worrying about removing them.

Is there a way to release all open connections for a HttpHost? There is not much documentation around releasing those and from the API docs I see its only possible through a PoolEntry, but I have no clue how that maps to a HttpHost.

And if that's not feasible or intended, what would be the correct way to do it?

Thanks,
Michael