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Deal with consequences of failed connections or failed sends

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp

Research direction

Read the agent, endpoint, heartbeater, and relayer implementations to compare how failed sends and connection errors are currently handled. Trace their broker and service connection paths first; the issue is done only after the failure consequences and reconnection or shutdown behavior are agreed and consistently implemented.

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Description

Several classes send messages:

  • agent
  • endpoint
  • heartbeater
  • relayer

Currently they all handle failures while attempting to send messages. But what are the consequences of such a failure? Should the service quit?

Another suggestion: if a connection problem occurs, start a thread that checks tries to connect to the broker or checks the service's connection, and kills the service if it can't find the broker.

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C++
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