Netty channel close

Asked Apr 07 '16 at 02:36

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I hava a question about Netty channel.

I inserted a channel handler into a channel pipeline. When connection is down (for example, the peer socket closed), channelInactive method is called:

@Override
public void channelInactive(ChannelHandlerContext ctx) {

}

Do I need to explicitly close the channel in channelInactive method? like:

@Override
public void channelInactive(ChannelHandlerContext ctx) {
    ctx.channel().close();
}

Does Netty do some cleanup for me? Or I have to do some cleanup myself?

asked Apr 07 '16 at 02:36

ruanhao

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what did you mean with "cleanup" ? or what are you expecting in this cleanup? – hcarrasko Apr 07 '16 at 14:24
@Hector I mean close the channel(socket) to release memory. – ruanhao Apr 08 '16 at 01:21
I assume netty cleanups by itself, because none of the examples use .close() in their handlers, but this is not a good proof – Ferrybig Apr 09 '16 at 11:40

Netty channel close

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