gcc/libjava/classpath/gnu/CORBA/Asynchron.java

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package gnu.CORBA;

import org.omg.CORBA.Request;
import org.omg.CORBA.WrongTransaction;

import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.LinkedList;

/**
 * Handles the asynchronous dynamic invocations.
 *
 * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
 */
public class Asynchron
{
  LinkedList sent = new LinkedList();

  /**
   * Send multiple prepared requests one way, do not caring about the answer.
   * The messages, containing requests, will be marked, indicating that
   * the sender is not expecting to get a reply.
   *
   * @param requests the prepared array of requests.
   *
   * @see Request#send_oneway()
   */
  public void send_multiple_requests_oneway(Request[] requests)
  {
    for (int i = 0; i < requests.length; i++)
      {
        requests [ i ].send_oneway();
      }
  }

  /**
   * Send multiple prepared requests expecting to get a reply. All requests
   * are send in parallel, each in its own separate thread. When the
   * reply arrives, it is stored in the agreed fields of the corresponing
   * request data structure. If this method is called repeatedly,
   * the new requests are added to the set of the currently sent requests,
   * but the old set is not discarded.
   *
   * @param requests the prepared array of requests.
   *
   * @see #poll_next_response()
   * @see #get_next_response()
   * @see Request#send_deferred()
   */
  public void send_multiple_requests_deferred(Request[] requests)
  {
    synchronized (sent)
      {
        for (int i = 0; i < requests.length; i++)
          {
            sent.add(requests [ i ]);

            // TODO Reuse threads that are instantiated in the method below,
            // one thread per call.
            requests [ i ].send_deferred();
          }
      }
  }

  /**
   * Find if any of the requests that have been previously sent with
   * {@link #send_multiple_requests_deferred}, have a response yet.
   *
   * @return true if there is at least one response to the previously
   * sent request, false otherwise.
   */
  public boolean poll_next_response()
  {
    synchronized (sent)
      {
        Iterator iter = sent.iterator();
        Request r;
        while (iter.hasNext())
          {
            r = (Request) iter.next();
            if (r.poll_response())
              return true;
          }
      }
    return false;
  }

  /**
   * Get the next instance with a response being received. If all currently
   * sent responses not yet processed, this method pauses till at least one of
   * them is complete. If there are no requests currently sent, the method
   * pauses till some request is submitted and the response is received.
   * This strategy is identical to the one accepted by Suns 1.4 ORB
   * implementation.
   *
   * The returned response is removed from the list of the currently
   * submitted responses and is never returned again.
   *
   * @return the previously sent request that now contains the received
   * response.
   *
   * @throws WrongTransaction If the method was called from the transaction
   * scope different than the one, used to send the request. The exception
   * can be raised only if the request is implicitly associated with some
   * particular transaction.
   */
  public Request get_next_response()
                            throws WrongTransaction
  {
    // The hard-coded waiting times for the incremental waiter.
    // TODO it is possible to write more tricky system where the
    // requests notify the Asynchron when they are complete.
    // Wait for 5 ms intially.
    int wait = 8;

    // Double the waiting time
    int INC = 2;

    // Do not increase if the waiting time is already over 500 ms.
    int MAX = 500;
    while (true)
      {
        synchronized (sent)
          {
            Iterator iter = sent.iterator();
            Request r;
            while (iter.hasNext())
              {
                r = (Request) iter.next();
                if (r.poll_response())
                {
                  sent.remove(r);
                  return r;
                }
              }
          }
        try
          {
            Thread.sleep(wait);
            if (wait < MAX)
              wait = wait * INC;
          }
        catch (InterruptedException ex)
          {
          }
      }
  }
}