[THRIFT-2058] Add reconnect support to node.js library

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.9.2
• Component/s: Node.js - Library
• Labels: node nodejs
• Patch Info: Patch Available
• Assignee: Henrique Mendonca
• Reporter: Hamed Madani
• Created: 22/Jun/13 00:09
• Updated: 27/Jul/14 02:52
• Resolved: 22/Jul/14 10:53

Description

I've added reconnect support to node.js library.

added 4 new parameters to options:

debug : (true or false) when true console.log reconnect events
max_attempts : max number of reconnect attempts before giving up
connect_timeout : max time before giving up reconnect attempts
retry_max_delay : max time in millisecond between retry attempts

also added two new functions :

initialize_retry_vars() initialize the retry variables. 
connection_gone() gets called on 'close' event and tries to reconnect the connection.

Update: updated the patch to re-enable emitting the 'error' event.
("error" events get turned into exceptions if they aren't listened for. If the user handled this error then we should try to reconnect.)