- Convert terminals from a polling-based system to a more event-driven
one: they now accept an onChanged callback, which marks the parent as
dirty.
- Schedule ticks when monitors are marked as dirty.
- Add several missing @Overrides. This has nothing to do with the rest
of the changes, but I'm bad at good git practice.
- We now error if there are too many websockets, instead of queuing
them up. As these have a more explicit "lifetime", it could be
confusing if http.websocket just blocks indefinitely.
- Fix a CCME when cleaning up resources.
- Move all HTTP tasks to a unified "MonitoredResource" model. This
provides a uniform way of tracking object's lifetimes and disposing
of them when complete.
- Rewrite HTTP requests to use Netty instead of standard Java. This
offers several advantages:
- We have access to more HTTP verbs (mostly PATCH).
- We can now do http -> https redirects.
- We no longer need to spawn in a new thread for each HTTP request.
While we do need to run some tasks off-thread in order to resolve
IPs, it's generally a much shorter task, and so is less likely to
inflate the thread pool.
- Introduce several limits for the http API:
- There's a limit on how many HTTP requests and websockets may exist
at the same time. If the limit is reached, additional ones will be
queued up until pending requests have finished.
- HTTP requests may upload a maximum of 4Mib and download a maximum
of 16Mib (configurable).
- .getResponseCode now returns the status text, as well as the status
code.
Jonathan Coates