Hi Ceki, I added an initial patch to http://jira.qos.ch/browse/LBCORE-109. I would appreciate any feedback. Ceki Gulcu wrote:
Hello Syvalta,
This is related to issue LBCORE-109 [1]. It would be nice if a WriterAppender and derivatives could recuperate from a temporary failure.
- Changes can be backward incompatible but within reason.
- Attempts to recuperate from a failure should be done with parsimony. You could use a backoff mechanism: attempt if N seconds have elapses, in the subsequent attempt wait for 4*N, and in the third, wait for at least 16*N to elapse, and so forth until you reach 30 minutes as a maximum delay between attempts.
- Do not do any buffering. If you do, you are likely to cause the applicaion to crash with OutOfMemoryException if there is no limit to the size of the buffer and it the buffer has a limit, then you can't guarantee that events won't be lost. It's way too much hassle for little benefit.
- The patch would likely be accepted if it is easy to understand, if it has test cases and all existing test cases continue to pass.
HTH,
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