Package org.apache.catalina.valves

Class LoadBalancerDrainingValve

java.lang.Object

org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase

org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleMBeanBase

org.apache.catalina.valves.ValveBase

org.apache.catalina.valves.LoadBalancerDrainingValve

All Implemented Interfaces:

MBeanRegistration, Contained, JmxEnabled, Lifecycle, Valve

public class LoadBalancerDrainingValve
extends ValveBase

A Valve to detect situations where a load-balanced node receiving a request has been deactivated by the load balancer (JK_LB_ACTIVATION=DIS) and the incoming request has no valid session.

In these cases, the user's session cookie should be removed if it exists, any ";jsessionid" parameter should be removed from the request URI, and the client should be redirected to the same URI. This will cause the load-balanced to re-balance the client to another server.

All this work is required because when the activation state of a node is DISABLED, the load-balancer will still send requests to the node if they appear to have a session on that node. Since mod_jk doesn't actually know whether the session id is valid, it will send the request blindly to the disabled node, which makes it take much longer to drain the node than strictly necessary.

For testing purposes, a special cookie can be configured and used by a client to ignore the normal behavior of this Valve and allow a client to get a new session on a DISABLED node. See setIgnoreCookieName(java.lang.String) and setIgnoreCookieValue(java.lang.String) to configure those values.

This Valve should be installed earlier in the Valve pipeline than any authentication valves, as the redirection should take place before an authentication valve would save a request to a protected resource.

See Also:

• Load balancer documentation

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from interface org.apache.catalina.Lifecycle

Lifecycle.SingleUse

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
static final String	ATTRIBUTE_KEY_JK_LB_ACTIVATION	The request attribute key where the load-balancer's activation state can be found.

Fields inherited from class org.apache.catalina.valves.ValveBase

asyncSupported, container, containerLog, next, sm

Fields inherited from interface org.apache.catalina.Lifecycle

AFTER_DESTROY_EVENT, AFTER_INIT_EVENT, AFTER_START_EVENT, AFTER_STOP_EVENT, BEFORE_DESTROY_EVENT, BEFORE_INIT_EVENT, BEFORE_START_EVENT, BEFORE_STOP_EVENT, CONFIGURE_START_EVENT, CONFIGURE_STOP_EVENT, PERIODIC_EVENT, START_EVENT, STOP_EVENT

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
LoadBalancerDrainingValve()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
String	getIgnoreCookieName()	Gets the name of the cookie that can be used to override the re-balancing behavior of this Valve when the current node is in the DISABLED activation state.
String	getIgnoreCookieValue()	Gets the expected value of the cookie that can be used to override the re-balancing behavior of this Valve when the current node is in the DISABLED activation state.
void	invoke(Request request, Response response)	Perform request processing as required by this Valve.
void	setIgnoreCookieName(String cookieName)	Sets the name of the cookie that can be used to override the re-balancing behavior of this Valve when the current node is in the DISABLED activation state.
void	setIgnoreCookieValue(String cookieValue)	Sets the expected value of the cookie that can be used to override the re-balancing behavior of this Valve when the current node is in the DISABLED activation state.
void	setRedirectStatusCode(int code)	Sets the HTTP response code that will be used to redirect the request back to the load-balancer for re-balancing.

Methods inherited from class org.apache.catalina.valves.ValveBase

backgroundProcess, getContainer, getDomainInternal, getNext, getObjectNameKeyProperties, initInternal, isAsyncSupported, setAsyncSupported, setContainer, setNext, startInternal, stopInternal, toString

Methods inherited from class org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleMBeanBase

destroyInternal, getDomain, getObjectName, postDeregister, postRegister, preDeregister, preRegister, register, setDomain, unregister, unregister

Methods inherited from class org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase

addLifecycleListener, destroy, findLifecycleListeners, fireLifecycleEvent, getState, getStateName, getThrowOnFailure, init, removeLifecycleListener, setState, setState, setThrowOnFailure, start, stop

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Field Details

ATTRIBUTE_KEY_JK_LB_ACTIVATION

public static final String ATTRIBUTE_KEY_JK_LB_ACTIVATION

The request attribute key where the load-balancer's activation state can be found.

See Also:

• Constant Field Values

Constructor Details

LoadBalancerDrainingValve

public LoadBalancerDrainingValve()

Method Details

setRedirectStatusCode

public void setRedirectStatusCode(int code)

Sets the HTTP response code that will be used to redirect the request back to the load-balancer for re-balancing. Defaults to 307 (TEMPORARY_REDIRECT).

Parameters:

code - The code to use for the redirect

getIgnoreCookieName

public String getIgnoreCookieName()

Gets the name of the cookie that can be used to override the re-balancing behavior of this Valve when the current node is in the DISABLED activation state.

Returns:

The cookie name used to ignore normal processing rules.

See Also:

• setIgnoreCookieValue(java.lang.String)

setIgnoreCookieName

public void setIgnoreCookieName(String cookieName)

Sets the name of the cookie that can be used to override the re-balancing behavior of this Valve when the current node is in the DISABLED activation state. There is no default value for this setting: the ability to override the re-balancing behavior of this Valve is disabled by default.

Parameters:

cookieName - The cookie name to use to ignore normal processing rules.

See Also:

• getIgnoreCookieValue()

getIgnoreCookieValue

public String getIgnoreCookieValue()

Gets the expected value of the cookie that can be used to override the re-balancing behavior of this Valve when the current node is in the DISABLED activation state.

Returns:

The cookie value used to ignore normal processing rules.

See Also:

• setIgnoreCookieValue(java.lang.String)

setIgnoreCookieValue

public void setIgnoreCookieValue(String cookieValue)

Sets the expected value of the cookie that can be used to override the re-balancing behavior of this Valve when the current node is in the DISABLED activation state. The "ignore" cookie's value must be exactly equal to this value in order to allow the client to override the re-balancing behavior.

Parameters:

cookieValue - The cookie value to use to ignore normal processing rules.

See Also:

• getIgnoreCookieValue()

invoke

public void invoke(Request request,
 Response response)
            throws IOException,
ServletException

Description copied from interface: Valve

Perform request processing as required by this Valve.

An individual Valve MAY perform the following actions, in the specified order:

• Examine and/or modify the properties of the specified Request and Response.
• Examine the properties of the specified Request, completely generate the corresponding Response, and return control to the caller.
• Examine the properties of the specified Request and Response, wrap either or both of these objects to supplement their functionality, and pass them on.
• If the corresponding Response was not generated (and control was not returned, call the next Valve in the pipeline (if there is one) by executing getNext().invoke().
• Examine, but not modify, the properties of the resulting Response (which was created by a subsequently invoked Valve or Container).

A Valve MUST NOT do any of the following things:

• Change request properties that have already been used to direct the flow of processing control for this request (for instance, trying to change the virtual host to which a Request should be sent from a pipeline attached to a Host or Context in the standard implementation).
• Create a completed Response AND pass this Request and Response on to the next Valve in the pipeline.
• Consume bytes from the input stream associated with the Request, unless it is completely generating the response, or wrapping the request before passing it on.
• Modify the HTTP headers included with the Response after the getNext().invoke() method has returned.
• Perform any actions on the output stream associated with the specified Response after the getNext().invoke() method has returned.

Parameters:

request - The servlet request to be processed

response - The servlet response to be created

Throws:

IOException - if an input/output error occurs, or is thrown by a subsequently invoked Valve, Filter, or Servlet

ServletException - if a servlet error occurs, or is thrown by a subsequently invoked Valve, Filter, or Servlet