Re: [p2-dev] question about soft reference to "unreachable repositories"

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Cancelation shouldn't cause the repository
to be added to the set of unreachable repositories. I think this was due
to a bug that we were handling cancelation the same as other errors on
load. I just fixed this in HEAD, so you shouldn't see this happening any
more (please enter a bug if you do).

Henrik Lindberg <henrik.lindberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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04/02/2009 04:17 PM

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Subject	[p2-dev] question about soft reference to "unreachable repositories"

The AbstractRepositoryManager maintains a soft reference
to a list of  
"unreachable repositories". A site that did not load is always
added  
to this list even if the reason for not being added is that the  
transfer was canceled by the user.

I see two potential problems with this:
- As this is kept in a soft reference, it is hard to tell when a new  
attempt of loading a failing repository will take place.
- A user that cancels will have to wait some unknown amount of time  
(or invoke operations/gc until the soft reference is cleared).

I stumbled across this when testing resume of a canceled download. The
 
attempt to resume always fails on the "recently failed" test.
I got around this by calling "refresh" which in turns clears
the soft  
referenced list, so I can make a second attempt.

Is there any need to worry about a user canceling and retrying and  
wondering what is going on, or is the user interface making sure that  
a second attempt is made after the list is cleared?

Henrik Lindberg
henrik.lindberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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