SourcePollingChannelAdapter: can inception of polling trigger after application start by arbitrary delay? - spring

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For a fuller account of my spring-integration configuration, see this question I posted yesterday.
To sum up, I have set up this channel for polling changes to a directory:
<int-file:inbound-channel-adapter id="channelIn" directory="${channel.dir}" auto-create-directory="false" use-watch-service="false" filter="channelFilter" watch-events="CREATE,MODIFY">
<int-file:nio-locker ref="channelLocker"/>
<int:poller fixed-delay="${channel.polling.delay}" max-messages-per-poll="${channel.polling.maxmsgs}"></int:poller>
</int-file:inbound-channel-adapter>
It works fine. However, there does not appear to be a configuration option to start the polling after application-start by some arbitrary delay. In my case, I don't think there is any program error (yet) in starting the polling service immediately after Tomcat container starts my war-file. But it is also true that there is quite a bit going on during the application-start, and my preference would be to defer the inception of the polling service some time after the bean for SourcePollingChannelAdapter is created.
Is there anyway to do this in Spring?

There are (at least) a couple of options:
Instead of fixed-delay, use the trigger property to point to a PeriodicTrigger bean with an initialDelay (and fixedDelay).
Set auto-startup="false" and start the adapter manually either directly, or using a control bus.
https://docs.spring.io/spring-integration/docs/current/reference/html/system-management.html#control-bus

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How to start/stop nt-aws:s3-inbound-channel-adapter manually

How to customize start/stop of aws s3 inbound-channel-adapter . I want to set auto-startup="false" initially and start manually when server starts.Looking for a solution which is similar like we have the below solution for file inbound channel adaptor.
inboundFileAdapterChannel.send(new GenericMessage("#'s3FilesChannelId.adapter'.start()"));
Config:
If i try the same approach for s3 inbound adapter channel . I am getting the below error
APPLICATION FAILED TO START
Description:
A component required a bean named 's3FilesChannelId.adapter' that could not be found.
Action:
Consider defining a bean named 's3FilesChannelId.adapter' in your configuration.
Let's assume we have a channel adapter like this:
<int-aws:s3-inbound-channel-adapter id="s3Inbound"
channel="s3Channel"
session-factory="s3SessionFactory"
auto-create-local-directory="true"
auto-startup="false"
delete-remote-files="true"
preserve-timestamp="true"
filename-pattern="*.txt"
local-directory="."
remote-file-separator="\"
local-filename-generator-expression="#this.toUpperCase() + '.a' + #fooString"
comparator="comparator"
temporary-file-suffix=".foo"
local-filter="acceptAllFilter"
remote-directory-expression="'foo/bar'">
<int:poller fixed-rate="1000"/>
</int-aws:s3-inbound-channel-adapter>
Pay attention to the auto-startup="false" and to the id="s3Inbound".
So, it isn't going to be started automatically after application context initialization.
However using that s3Inbound id we can do that manually whenever it is convenient for us.
Your story about inboundFileAdapterChannel is not clear though, but you still can inject a Lifecycle for the mentioned channel adapter and perform its start():
#Autowired
#Qualifier("s3Inbound")
private Lifecycle s3Inbound;
...
this.s3Inbound.start();
The piece of code about inboundFileAdapterChannel seems like a reference to the Control Bus approach, but that's already slightly different story: https://docs.spring.io/spring-integration/docs/current/reference/html/system-management-chapter.html#control-bus

"Connect timeout" in spring ws and still survive?

Spring 3.2.6
There might be an easy solution for this that I've missed, but I've been scouring the boards for the last couple days, tried a few things and so far nothing - so I thought I'd consult the experts.
My app:
I have 5 JaxWsPortProxyFactoryBean beans configured in my applicationContext.xml that connect to and consume various web services. Everything works fine, very nice!
Problem:
When my app starts there may be 1 or more web services that are either OFF or not accessible. This is fine as my app can run without them; however, is there a way to continue processing other beans in the context after receiving a TimeoutException (or any Exception due to connectivity with the WS)?
I was hoping for a property in JaxWsPortProxyFactoryBean like continueOnError or something similar.
Hope this makes sense.
You can disable the lookup/check of the web service at startup by setting the lookupServiceOnStartup property to false.
<bean id="yourService" class="org.springframework.remoting.jaxws.JaxWsPortProxyFactoryBean">
<property name="lookupServiceOnStartup" value="false" />
// Other properties
</bean>
Advantage your application starts up a bit faster, drawback the first call to the web service might take a little longer.
You can check the javadoc for more information, the lookupServiceOnStartup property is defined on the JaxWsPortClientInterceptor.
Possible solution is to use setLookupServiceOnStartup and set it to false.
http://static.javadoc.io/org.springframework/spring-web/3.2.6.RELEASE/index.html?org/springframework/remoting/jaxws/JaxWsPortClientInterceptor.html

Prevent use of CachingConnectionFactory with DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactory

I am working on a brand new project in which I need to have listeners that will consume messages from several queues (no need to have producer for now).
Starting from scratch, I am using the last Spring JMS version (4.1.2).
Here is an extract of my configuration file:
<bean id="cachedConnectionFactory"
class="org.springframework.jms.connection.CachingConnectionFactory"
p:targetConnectionFactory-ref="jmsConnectionFactory"
p:sessionCacheSize="3" />
<bean id="jmsListenerContainerFactory"
class="org.springframework.jms.config.DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactory"
p:connectionFactory-ref="cachedConnectionFactory"
p:destinationResolver-ref="jndiDestinationResolver"
p:concurrency="3-5"
p:receiveTimeout="5000" />
But I think I may be wrong since DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactory will build regular DefaultMessageListenerContainerS. And, as stated in the doc, CachingConnectionFactory should not be used with a message listener container...
Even if I am using the new Spring 4.1 DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactory class the answer from post is still valid (cacheConsumers = true can be an issue + don't need to cache sessions for listener containers because the sessions are long lived) , right?
Instead of using the CachingConnectionFactory, I should use the SingleConnectionFactory (and not directly the broker implementation one)?
If the SingleConnectionFactory class should indeed be used, is the "reconnectOnException" property should be set to true (as it is done in the CachingConnectionFactory) or does the new "setBackOff" method (from DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactory) deals with the same kind of issues?
Thanks for any tips
Correct.
There's not really much benefit in using a SingleConnectionFactory unless you want to share a single connection across multiple containers; the DMLC will use a single connection from the vendor factory by default for all consumer threads (cacheLevel >= CACHE_CONNECTION), unless a TransactionManager is configured.
The container(s) will handle reconnection - even before the 'new' backOff property - backOff just adds more sophistication to the reconnection algorithm - it used to just retry every n seconds (5 by default).
As stated in the answer you cited, it's ok to use a CCF as long as you disable consumer caching.
Correction: Yes, when using the SingleConnectionFactory, you do need to set reconnectOnException to true in order for the container to properly recover its connection. Otherwise, it simply hands out the stale connection.

Default taskScheduler Bean - Spring integraion 2.2.0 Vs 3.0.2 with Spring 3.2.9

I have a stand alone application that uses File inbound channel adapter to poll for a file from a Specified location at certain interval.
I don't have a taskScheduler instance defined.
When running the application with both Spring integration 2.2.0 and 3.0.2, I see that there are 10 threads created with name task-scheduler-x after certain amount of time. I believe this is the default behavior.
I removed the file inbound channel adapter configuration from my application and re-run it, I noticed the following behavior.
In 3.0.2 , 10 threads are getting created with name task-scheduler-x.
In 2.2.0, Though a taskScheduler instance is getting created (I can see the message about the bean creation in the logs), I don't see any threads getting created with the name task-scheduler-x.
Why is this behavior different between these two versions? What should I do if I don't want to create a taskScheduler instance or I don't want to create any threads for task scheduling?
Thanks for the help.
The framework now has a built-in component (header channel registry) that uses the taskScheduler.
It's not really using many resources although it does have this side effect of instantiating the scheduler thread pool.
We'll look at adding an option to disable it if you don't need/use it. In the meantime, you can revert to the pre 3.0 behavior by adding this bean to your context:
<bean id="integrationHeaderChannelRegistry" class="org.springframework.integration.channel.DefaultHeaderChannelRegistry">
<property name="autoStartup" value="false" />
</bean>
I opened a JIRA Issue for this.

Spring Integration :Can we have two Inbound Channel in the same time

I am using
<int:inbound-channel-adapter id="dummyMessageA" channel="messages" method="getMessage" auto-startup="true" ref="messageGenerator">
<int:poller error-channel="errorChannel" fixed-rate="10000"/>
</int:inbound-channel-adapter>
<int:inbound-channel-adapter id="dummyNotif" channel="notifs" method="gtNotif" auto-startup="true" ref="notifGenerator">
<int:poller error-channel="errorChannel" fixed-rate="10000"/>
</int:inbound-channel-adapter>
These inbound channels are independent but when I deploy my Web Application, Only the second inbound channel adapter is taken into consideration (although the other one was working before adding the dummyNotif). Is this normal, should I add something in the config (NB : I don't aggregate the messages)
My guess you catched this issue https://jira.spring.io/browse/INT-3240 - 'Inbound Channel Adapter Parser doesn't generate unique bean Id for MessageSources'. That's mean that you use Spring Integration 3.0.
So, just upgrade to the latest - 3.0.2.RELEASE - and let us know.
UPDATE
Regarding the same id for several beans. By default Spring allow to do it and the last bean wins. All others will be ignored and skipped.
It can be disabled by AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext#setAllowBeanDefinitionOverriding(false).
From other side if you setup DEBUG logging level for org.springframework category you'll the message in the logs that your beans are overriden.
as far as your question is concerned, Spring Integration allows to have multiple inbound-channel-adapter definition in a single context.
However, from your comments, seems that you have some different issue in your configuration multiple Service Activators with same Id.
It can be disabled as #Artem described in his answer.

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