Class QoSFilter
- All Implemented Interfaces:
jakarta.servlet.Filter
This filter limits the number of active requests to the number set by the "maxRequests" init parameter (default 10).
If more requests are received, they are suspended and placed on priority queues. Priorities are determined by
the getPriority(ServletRequest)
method and are a value between 0 and the value given by the "maxPriority"
init parameter (default 10), with higher values having higher priority.
This filter is ideal to prevent wasting threads waiting for slow/limited resources such as a JDBC connection pool. It avoids the situation where all of a containers thread pool may be consumed blocking on such a slow resource. By limiting the number of active threads, a smaller thread pool may be used as the threads are not wasted waiting. Thus more memory may be available for use by the active threads.
Furthermore, this filter uses a priority when resuming waiting requests. So that if
a container is under load, and there are many requests waiting for resources,
the getPriority(ServletRequest)
method is used, so that more important
requests are serviced first. For example, this filter could be deployed with a
maxRequest limit slightly smaller than the containers thread pool and a high priority
allocated to admin users. Thus regardless of load, admin users would always be
able to access the web application.
The maxRequest limit is policed by a Semaphore
and the filter will wait a short while attempting to acquire
the semaphore. This wait is controlled by the "waitMs" init parameter and allows the expense of a suspend to be
avoided if the semaphore is shortly available. If the semaphore cannot be obtained, the request will be suspended
for the default suspend period of the container or the valued set as the "suspendMs" init parameter.
If the "managedAttr" init parameter is set to true, then this servlet is set as a ServletContext
attribute
with the filter name as the attribute name. This allows context external mechanism (eg JMX via ContextHandler
managed attribute) to manage the configuration of the filter.
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Constructor Summary
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Method Summary
Modifier and TypeMethodDescriptionvoid
destroy()
Deprecated.void
doFilter
(jakarta.servlet.ServletRequest request, jakarta.servlet.ServletResponse response, jakarta.servlet.FilterChain chain) Deprecated.int
Deprecated.Get the maximum number of requests allowed to be processed at the same time.protected int
getPriority
(jakarta.servlet.ServletRequest request) Deprecated.Computes the request priority.long
Deprecated.Get the amount of time (in milliseconds) that the filter would suspend a request for while waiting for the semaphore to become available.long
Deprecated.Get the (short) amount of time (in milliseconds) that the filter would wait for the semaphore to become available before suspending a request.void
init
(jakarta.servlet.FilterConfig filterConfig) Deprecated.
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Constructor Details
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QoSFilter
public QoSFilter()Deprecated.
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Method Details
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init
public void init(jakarta.servlet.FilterConfig filterConfig) Deprecated.- Specified by:
init
in interfacejakarta.servlet.Filter
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doFilter
public void doFilter(jakarta.servlet.ServletRequest request, jakarta.servlet.ServletResponse response, jakarta.servlet.FilterChain chain) throws IOException, jakarta.servlet.ServletException Deprecated.- Specified by:
doFilter
in interfacejakarta.servlet.Filter
- Throws:
IOException
jakarta.servlet.ServletException
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getPriority
protected int getPriority(jakarta.servlet.ServletRequest request) Deprecated.Computes the request priority.The default implementation assigns the following priorities:
- 2 - for an authenticated request
- 1 - for a request with valid / non new session
- 0 - for all other requests.
- Parameters:
request
- the incoming request- Returns:
- the computed request priority
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destroy
public void destroy()Deprecated.- Specified by:
destroy
in interfacejakarta.servlet.Filter
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getWaitMs
@ManagedAttribute("(short) amount of time filter will wait before suspending request (in ms)") public long getWaitMs()Deprecated.Get the (short) amount of time (in milliseconds) that the filter would wait for the semaphore to become available before suspending a request.- Returns:
- wait time (in milliseconds)
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getSuspendMs
@ManagedAttribute("amount of time filter will suspend a request for while waiting for the semaphore to become available (in ms)") public long getSuspendMs()Deprecated.Get the amount of time (in milliseconds) that the filter would suspend a request for while waiting for the semaphore to become available.- Returns:
- suspend time (in milliseconds)
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getMaxRequests
@ManagedAttribute("maximum number of requests to allow processing of at the same time") public int getMaxRequests()Deprecated.Get the maximum number of requests allowed to be processed at the same time.- Returns:
- maximum number of requests
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QoSHandler
instead.