[logback-dev] TwitterAppender, some problems we need to be aware of

[Ceki Gulcu]

Any appender which accesses a remote service needs to deal with the
unavailability of the said service. The fact that Twitter4J did not
honor the setHttpConnectionTimeout() method is a useful fact to
know. On the other hand, I don't think there is much TwitterAppender
can do in order to compensate for Twitter4J's present
shortcomings. Filing a bug report against Twitter4J or contacting
Twitter4J developpers (as Rob has done) is the reasonable thing to
do.

Anyway, thank you for keeping us posted.

Joern Huxhorn wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> Twitter is more or less down for hours now. This sucks but also shows a 
> problem we need to be aware of while implementing the appender:


> Begin forwarded message:
> 
>> *From: *"Rob O'Brien" <rob at zepoid.com <mailto:rob at zepoid.com>>
>> *Date: *6. August 2009 17:13:31 MESZ
>> *To: *<twitter4j at googlegroups.com <mailto:twitter4j at googlegroups.com>>
>> *Subject: **[Twitter4J] Request Timeouts*
>> *Reply-To: *twitter4j at googlegroups.com <mailto:twitter4j at googlegroups.com>
>>
>> I’m brand new to the group, so forgive me if this topic has been 
>> covered (I did a quick search and found nothing).
>>  
>> With Twitter being down this morning, requests to Twitter through 
>> Twitter4J seem to hang indefinitely. Even with the use of 
>> setHttpConnectionTimeout(), requests took longer than the value I set 
>> (which was 5000, or 5 seconds – requests still took up to  30 seconds)
>>  
>> Can someone verify that the timeout enforcement works and that this is 
>> the correct setting to prevent such hangs while Twitter is unavailable?
>>  
>> **Rob O'Brien***
>> **Web Application Developer & Consultant**
>> **rob at zepoid.com <mailto:rob at zepoid.com>**
>>
>> *
> 
> In addition, I've found another problem myself for which I filed a bug 
> report: http://yusuke.homeip.net/jira/browse/TFJ-193
> Currently, Twitter4J isn't sending status updates in UTF-8 - which it 
> should. I've also described a workaround in the JIRA ticket.
> 
> Just FYI.
> 
> Joern.
> 
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