LSClient Not giving any error if the LS Server is not running

shreyaspurohit

Hi,

I turned my LS server down, and tried to run my app, with possible registration to all the events i could expect. Well, nothings happening, the client waits for some min's and silently dies down. How can I get the info that my server is not running? The status change is getting invoked, and it is displaying

DISCONNECTED => CONNECTING

After this, nothing happening. The code is below. Please help me out.

private function connectToLs(connector:LSConnector):void{
			lsClient = new LSClient();
			
			lsClient.addEventListener(StatusChangeEvent.STATUS_CHANGE,onLSStatusChange);
			lsClient.addEventListener(SubscriptionEvent.SUBSCRIPTION,onLSSubscription);
			lsClient.addEventListener(ServerErrorEvent.SERVER_ERROR,onLSConnectionError);
			lsClient.addEventListener(ControlErrorEvent.CONTROL_ERROR,onLSConnectionError);
			lsClient.addEventListener(ControlConnectionErrorEvent.CONTROL_CONNECTION_ERROR,onLSConnectionError);
				
				
			var connectionInfo:ConnectionInfo = new ConnectionInfo();
			connectionInfo.setServer(connector.host);
			connectionInfo.setAdapter(connector.mainAdapter);
			connectionInfo.setControlPort(connector.port);
			connectionInfo.setPort(connector.port);
			connectionInfo.setControlProtocol(connector.protocol);
			connectionInfo.setProtocol(connector.protocol);
			
			
			var connectionPolicy:ConnectionPolicy = new ConnectionPolicy();
//Tried default nthing happ, so added these lines (These are the default values)
			connectionPolicy.setTimeoutForStalled(2000);
			connectionPolicy.setTimeoutForReconnect(15000);
			connectionPolicy.setRetryTimeout(5000);
			
			//Connect to Lightstreamer Server
			try {
				lsClient.openConnection(connectionInfo,connectionPolicy);
			} catch(e:Error) {
				Alert.show(e.message);//No alert also!!
			}
		}

public function onLSStatusChange(event:StatusChangeEvent):void{
			trace(event.previousStatus + " => " + event.status);
}

Mone

That's the correct behavior of the client.
If the client is not connected to the server it continuously makes new attempts. During those attempts the client status remains CONNECTING.
You can pose your own limit to connection attempts setting a timeout and "closing the connection" through the closeConnection call once such timeout is reached.

You can control some of the connection-related behaviors of the client through the ConnectionPolicy object ( http://www.lightstreamer.com/docs/client_flashflexas_asdoc/com/lightstreamer/as_client/ConnectionPolicy.html )

HTH.

shreyaspurohit

Hi Mone,

You can see in my code, I am setting setTimeoutForStalled, setTimeoutForReconnect, setRetryTimeout for the connection policy. I have set respectively, 2, 15 and 5 seconds. But even after waiting for 3-4 min, I am not getting to know in any of my callback listeners when is the server actually down. The Flex App is just stuck in waiting mode.

Also the doc says only for setRetryTimeout the argument in millisec, so i assumed that for the remaining methods args may or may not be in millisec and tried with both type of arguments(sec and millisec). But, still no use.

Can you please tell me the configuration so that as soon as server is down I get an alert stating that server down?

Thanks,
Shreyas

Mone

Such timeouts are used internally to decide when to perform new attempts, but as said in my previous message it is correct that the client remains in the CONNECTING status.

If you start the server you'll notice that accordingly to the set timeouts the client will reconnect correctly to the server.

What I meant is that you could set your own timeout to fire a callback after a while and then check if the client is connected or is still CONNECTING. You can set a timeout using the Timerclass or the setTimeout method of flex.

If you'd like to know when attempts are performed you can enable the client logging ( see http://www.lightstreamer.com/docs/client_flashflexas_asdoc/com/lightstreamer/as_client/logger/package-detail.html ) and then check the logs.

shreyaspurohit

Oh, ok.. I understand what you mean.
But, just consider this as a feature request.. It will be nice if I can get a handle when LSClient tries to reconnect or when suddenly server goes down. I would like to display the status on the UI saying disconnected, connecting in these many seconds..

Thanks a lot for making me understand this subject.

Mone

We'll take your request into consideration for a future release.

Note that if the server goes down while you're already connected you'll notice a status change through the status callback.

shreyaspurohit

Yup, I did observe that. Will use that to display disconnected status :-)