Is it possible to get current connection state in HornetQ?

[andrey.sergienko]

Hello.

I'm trying to find a way of getting current connection state in HornetQ.

We have a HornetQ running in standalone mode. Is it possible to get current connection's state (for example, is it online, offline, connecting) in runtime using JMS API?

For example, Progress SonicMQ has 'getConnectionState' method (http://documentation.progress.com/output/Sonic/8.0.0/Docs8.0/api/sonicmq_api/progress/message/jclient/Connection.html#getConnectionState())

Does something similar exist in HornetQ?

I've also asked on StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23649286/is-it-possible-to-get-current-connection-state-in-hornetq

In case if this is impossible, is there any way to set up a connection state listener? I mean, some callback method that could be called by HornetQ when connection state changed.

Thanks!

[jbertram]

I don't believe we expose any kind of state like this on our JMS connection implementation.  We implement the JMS ExceptionListener (and a corresponding FailureListener on the "core" API) which will be called in the event of a failure or a fail-over event, but doesn't provide fine-grained callbacks for connection state transitions.

[jbertram]

I'm curious...What's your use-case here that you would want this information, and how would you act on it if you could get it?

[andrey.sergienko]

This is a legacy code. Big and tricky. We're thinking on migrate from our current solution to hornet. And in the legacy code they track connection state - I assume, to monitor the whole system's health.

[jbertram]

Without more specific information about what the connection state is being used for it's impossible to say whether or not there's any kind of equivalent feature in HornetQ or even if it's completely inapplicable.