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  1. Qpid
  2. QPID-1670

Errors thrown from onMessage can kill the dispatcher

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    • Bug
    • Status: Closed
    • Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8
    • 0.9
    • JMS AMQP 0-x
    • None

    Description

      BasicMessageConsumer.notifyMessage catches Exception and handles it, but unchecked throwables will cause the Dispatcher thread in the Session to terminate after logging. It does not kill the session.

      The JMS spec has this to say:
      4.5.2 Asynchronous Delivery
      A client can register an object that implements the JMS MessageListener
      interface with a MessageConsumer. As messages arrive for the consumer, the
      provider delivers them by calling the listener's onMessage method.
      It is possible for a listener to throw a RuntimeException; however, this is
      considered a client programming error. Well-behaved listeners should catch
      such exceptions and attempt to divert messages causing them to some form of
      application-specific 'unprocessable message' destination.
      The result of a listener throwing a RuntimeException depends on the session's
      acknowledgment mode.
      • AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE or DUPS_OK_ACKNOWLEDGE - the message
      will be immediately redelivered. The number of times a JMS provider will
      redeliver the same message before giving up is provider-dependent. The
      JMSRedelivered message header field will be set for a message redelivered
      under these circumstances.
      • CLIENT_ACKNOWLEDGE - the next message for the listener is delivered.
      If a client wishes to have the previous unacknowledged message
      redelivered, it must manually recover the session.
      • Transacted Session - the next message for the listener is delivered. The client
      can either commit or roll back the session (in other words, a
      RuntimeException does not automatically rollback the session).
      JMS providers should flag clients with message listeners that are throwing
      RuntimeExceptions as possibly malfunctioning.

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