httpClient connection pool manager validateAfterInactivity

Question

I am looking at the documentation of PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager https://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/httpclient/apidocs/org/apache/http/impl/conn/PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.html

There is an API setValidateAfterInactivity. validateAfterInactivity is not very clear to me. It says - "Defines period of inactivity in milliseconds after which persistent connections must be re-validated prior to being leased to the consumer"

How exactly does it re-validate the connection? Wanted to understand the process. Does it send any http request to server or something to re-validate, or its something else?

What is the criteria/mechanism it uses to revalidate the connection? How does it all work?

score -1 · Answer 1 · answered May 24 '19 at 16:20

It use JDBC connection to do validate.

                    final ManagedHttpClientConnection conn = poolEntry.getConnection();
                    if (conn != null) {
                        conn.activate();
                    } else {
                        poolEntry.assignConnection(connFactory.createConnection(null));
                    }
                    if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
                        log.debug("Connection leased: " + ConnPoolSupport.formatStats(
                                poolEntry.getConnection(), route, state, pool));
                    }

source code here

I don't understand, what does JDBC have to do with the question — rjdkolb, Jan 20 '21 at 14:19

httpClient connection pool manager validateAfterInactivity

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