Unable to make socket Accept Non Blocking ruby 2.2 - ruby

Question

I have been searching the whole day for socket accept non blocking. I found recv non blocking but that wouldn't benefit me in anyway. My script first starts a new socket class. It binds to the client with ip 127.0.0.1 and port 6112. Then it starts multi threading. Multi threading takes #sock.accept. << That is blocking. I have then used accept_nonblock. Though, that would throw me the following error:
IO::EWOULDBLOCKWaitReadable : A non-blocking socket operation could not be completed immediately. - accept(2) would block
I am using Ruby 2.2.
NOTE: I do not intend to use Rails to solve my problem, or give me a shortcut. I am sticking with pure Ruby 2.2.
Here is my script:
require 'socket'
include Socket::Constants
#sock = Socket.new(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0)
#sockaddr = Socket.sockaddr_in(6112, '127.0.0.1')
#sock.bind(#sockaddr)
#sock.listen(5)
Thread.new(#sock.accept_nonblock) do |connection|
#client = Client.new(ip, connection, self)
#clients.push(#client)
begin
while connection
packet = connection.recv(55555)
if packet == nil
DeleteClient(connection)
else
#toput = "[RECV]: #{packet}"
puts #toput
end
end
rescue Exception => e
if e.class != IOError
line1 = e.backtrace[0].split(".rb").last
line = line1.split(":")[1]
#Log.Error(e, e.class, e.backtrace[0].split(".rb").first + ".rb",line)
puts "#{ e } (#{ e.class })"
end
end
def DeleteClient(connection)
#clients.delete(#client)
connection.close
end

Answer 1

http://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/2.2.0/Socket.html#method-i-accept_nonblock
accept_nonblock raises an exception when it can't immediately accept a connection. You are expected to rescue this exception and then IO.select the socket.
begin # emulate blocking accept
client_socket, client_addrinfo = socket.accept_nonblock
rescue IO::WaitReadable, Errno::EINTR
IO.select([socket])
retry
end
A patch has recently been accepted which will add an exception: false option to accept_nonblock, which will allow you to use it without using exceptions for flow control. I don't know that it's shipped yet, though.

Answer 2

I'm going on a limb here, and posting a large chunk of code.
I hope it will answer both your question and the any related questions others reading this answer might raise.
I'm sorry if I went overboard, I just thought it was almost all relevant.
Issues like looping through an event stack, using IO.select to push events in a non-block manner and other performance issues are all related (in my opinion) to the nonblocking concept of socket programming.
So i'm posting a ruby module which acts as a server with a reactor, using a limited number of threads, rather than thousands of threads, each per connection (12 threads will give you better performance than a hundred). The reactor utilizes the IO.select method with a timeout once all it's active events are handled.
The module can set up multiple listening sockets which use #accept_nonblock, and they all currently act as an echo server.
It's basically the same code I used for the Plezi framework's core... with some stripped down functionality.
The following is a thread-pool with 12 working threads + the main thread (which will sleep and wait for the "TERM" signal)...
...And it's an example of an accept_nonblock with exception handling and a thread pool.
It's a simple socket echo server, test it as a remote client using telnet:
> telnet localhost 3000
Hi!
# => Hi!
bye
#=> will disconnect
here's the code - Good Luck!!!
require 'socket'
module SmallServer
module_function
####
# Replace this method with your actual server logic.
#
# this code will be called when a socket recieves data.
#
# For now, we will just echo.
def got_data io, io_params
begin
got = io.recv_nonblock( 1048576 ) # with maximum number of bytes to read at a time...
puts "echoing: #{got}"
if got.match /^(exit|bye|q)\R/
puts 'closing connection.'
io.puts "bye bye!"
remove_connection io
else
io.puts "echoing: #{got}"
end
rescue => e
# should also log error
remove_connection io
end
end
#########
# main loop and activation code
#
# This will create a thread pool and set them running.
def start
# prepare threads
exit_flag = false
max_threads = 12
threads = []
thread_cycle = Proc.new do
io_review rescue false
true while fire_event
end
(max_threads).times { Thread.new { thread_cycle.call until exit_flag } }
# set signal tarps
trap('INT'){ exit_flag = true; raise "close!" }
trap('TERM'){ exit_flag = true; raise "close!" }
puts "Services running. Press ^C to stop"
# sleep until trap raises exception (cycling might cause the main thread to loose signals that might be caught inside rescue clauses)
(sleep unless SERVICES.empty?) rescue true
# start shutdown.
exit_flag = true
# set fallback tarps
trap('INT'){ puts 'Forced exit.'; Kernel.exit }
trap('TERM'){ puts 'Forced exit.'; Kernel.exit }
puts 'Started shutdown process. Press ^C to force quit.'
# shut down listening sockets
stop_services
# disconnect active connections
stop_connections
# cycle down threads
puts "Waiting for workers to cycle down"
threads.each {|t| t.join if t.alive?}
# rundown any active events
thread_cycle.call
end
#######################
## Events (Callbacks) / Multi-tasking Platform
EVENTS = []
E_LOCKER = Mutex.new
# returns true if there are any unhandled events
def events?
E_LOCKER.synchronize {!EVENTS.empty?}
end
# pushes an event to the event's stack
# if a block is passed along, it will be used as a callback: the block will be called with the values returned by the handler's `call` method.
def push_event handler, *args, &block
if block
E_LOCKER.synchronize {EVENTS << [(Proc.new {|a| push_event block, handler.call(*a)} ), args]}
else
E_LOCKER.synchronize {EVENTS << [handler, args]}
end
end
# Runs the block asynchronously by pushing it as an event to the event's stack
#
def run_async *args, &block
E_LOCKER.synchronize {EVENTS << [ block, args ]} if block
!block.nil?
end
# creates an asynchronous call to a method, with an optional callback (shortcut)
def callback object, method, *args, &block
push_event object.method(method), *args, &block
end
# event handling FIFO
def fire_event
event = E_LOCKER.synchronize {EVENTS.shift}
return false unless event
begin
event[0].call(*event[1])
rescue OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError => e
puts "SSL Bump - SSL Certificate refused?"
rescue Exception => e
raise if e.is_a?(SignalException) || e.is_a?(SystemExit)
error e
end
true
end
#####
# Reactor
#
# IO review code will review the connections and sockets
# it will accept new connections and react to socket input
IO_LOCKER = Mutex.new
def io_review
IO_LOCKER.synchronize do
return false unless EVENTS.empty?
united = SERVICES.keys + IO_CONNECTION_DIC.keys
return false if united.empty?
io_r = (IO.select(united, nil, united, 0.1) )
if io_r
io_r[0].each do |io|
if SERVICES[io]
begin
callback self, :add_connection, io.accept_nonblock, SERVICES[io]
rescue Errno::EWOULDBLOCK => e
rescue => e
# log
end
elsif IO_CONNECTION_DIC[io]
callback(self, :got_data, io, IO_CONNECTION_DIC[io] )
else
puts "what?!"
remove_connection(io)
SERVICES.delete(io)
end
end
io_r[2].each { |io| (remove_connection(io) || SERVICES.delete(io)).close rescue true }
end
end
callback self, :clear_connections
true
end
#######################
# IO - listening sockets (services)
SERVICES = {}
S_LOCKER = Mutex.new
def add_service port = 3000, parameters = {}
parameters[:port] ||= port
parameters.update port if port.is_a?(Hash)
service = TCPServer.new(parameters[:port])
S_LOCKER.synchronize {SERVICES[service] = parameters}
callback Kernel, :puts, "Started listening on port #{port}."
true
end
def stop_services
puts 'Stopping services'
S_LOCKER.synchronize {SERVICES.each {|s, p| (s.close rescue true); puts "Stoped listening on port #{p[:port]}"}; SERVICES.clear }
end
#####################
# IO - Active connections handling
IO_CONNECTION_DIC = {}
C_LOCKER = Mutex.new
def stop_connections
C_LOCKER.synchronize {IO_CONNECTION_DIC.each {|io, params| io.close rescue true} ; IO_CONNECTION_DIC.clear}
end
def add_connection io, more_data
C_LOCKER.synchronize {IO_CONNECTION_DIC[io] = more_data} if io
end
def remove_connection io
C_LOCKER.synchronize { IO_CONNECTION_DIC.delete io; io.close rescue true }
end
# clears closed connections from the stack
def clear_connections
C_LOCKER.synchronize { IO_CONNECTION_DIC.delete_if {|c| c.closed? } }
end
end
start the echo server in irb with:
SmallServer.add_service(3000) ; SmallServer.start