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[codemonkey]

Hi Laurent,
I'm trying to decide the best way to revoke a request from another server to join as a peer should that server not pass a list of criteria, i.e. that server's code base version does not correspond with the version of the server its trying to connect to.

I thought of either a custom mbean or startup class, but it's to my understanding that these methods are invoked after the driver/nodes have initialized, which would mean the peer connection would already have been initialized. Is this correct?

If the above is true, is there a way to catch the incoming connection request and handle it there?

I'd really appreciate any ideas/approach to this.

CM

[lolo]

Hello,

In fact, the startup classes and MBeans are started before any node or client can connect, as described in the flow of customizations, so this won't be a problem.

Unfortunately, there is no API that will allow to invalidate node connections from a startup or mbean.
Instead, what you could do is to create a node connection listener and throw a RuntimeException from its nodeConnected() method:

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public class MyConnectionListener implements NodeConnectionListener {
   @Override
   public void nodeConnected(NodeConnectionEvent event) {
     JPPFManagementInfo info = event.getNodeInformation();
     // peer driver ?
     if (info.isDriver()) {
       boolean ok = true;
       JPPFSystemInformation systemInfo = info.getSystemInfo();
       // ... perform some checks based on the info ...
       if (!ok) throw new IllegalStateException("refusing connection from peer driver");
     }
   }
 
   @Override
   void nodeDisconnected(NodeConnectionEvent event) {
   }
 }
The exception will be propagated back to the code that handles the network I/O and cause to close the connection.
Let me know if this works for you.

Sincerely,
-Laurent

[codemonkey]

Hi Laurent, this is great. I started going down the route of using an MBean which is satisfying requirement, but I like this solution much better as its cleaner.

Thanks again!

CM