Motivation:
GlobalEventExecutor.addTask was rightfully allowed to block by commit
09d38c8. However the same should have been done for
SingleThreadEventExecutor.addTask.
BlockHound is currently intercepting that call, and as a consequence,
it prevents SingleThreadEventExecutor from working properly, if addTask is
called from a thread that cannot block.
The interception is due to LinkedBlockingQueue.offer implementation,
which uses a ReentrantLock internally.
Modifications:
* Added one BlockHound exception to
io.netty.util.internal.Hidden.NettyBlockHoundIntegration for
SingleThreadEventExecutor.addTask.
* Also added unit tests for both SingleThreadEventExecutor.addTask
and GlobalEventExecutor.addTask.
Result:
SingleThreadEventExecutor.addTask can now be invoked from any thread
when BlockHound is activated.
If you are on Linux, you need additional development packages installed on your system, because you'll build the native transport.
Note that this is build-time requirement. JDK 5 (for 3.x) or 6 (for 4.0+) is enough to run your Netty-based application.
Branches to look
Development of all versions takes place in each branch whose name is identical to <majorVersion>.<minorVersion>. For example, the development of 3.9 and 4.0 resides in the branch '3.9' and the branch '4.0' respectively.
Usage with JDK 9
Netty can be used in modular JDK9 applications as a collection of automatic modules. The module names follow the
reverse-DNS style, and are derived from subproject names rather than root packages due to historical reasons. They
are listed below:
io.netty.all
io.netty.buffer
io.netty.codec
io.netty.codec.dns
io.netty.codec.haproxy
io.netty.codec.http
io.netty.codec.http2
io.netty.codec.memcache
io.netty.codec.mqtt
io.netty.codec.redis
io.netty.codec.smtp
io.netty.codec.socks
io.netty.codec.stomp
io.netty.codec.xml
io.netty.common
io.netty.handler
io.netty.handler.proxy
io.netty.resolver
io.netty.resolver.dns
io.netty.transport
io.netty.transport.epoll (native omitted - reserved keyword in Java)
io.netty.transport.kqueue (native omitted - reserved keyword in Java)
io.netty.transport.unix.common (native omitted - reserved keyword in Java)
io.netty.transport.rxtx
io.netty.transport.sctp
io.netty.transport.udt
Automatic modules do not provide any means to declare dependencies, so you need to list each used module separately
in your module-info file.