Corrections below (apologies)...
On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 10:44 AM, John Blum <jb...@pivotal.io> wrote:
> Yeah, that was my doing. :)
>
> I thought it would be more fun to return a special message than the
> typical "Alive". "Mischief Managed" comes from *Harry Potter*.
>
> This endpoint is of course benign/idempotent and was purely meant to test
> the Management REST API's availability, or rather that the Manage/Locator
> was still "online".
>
> Unlike JMX RMI, HTTP is stateless. When a JMX RMI connection is made, it
> is persistent and constantly "connected", where as each HTTP request to the
> Management REST API opens and closes a connection. Therefore, you have no
> idea whether *Gfsh* is still connected to the Manager between requests
> unlike the JMX RMI connection.
>
> So, I run a background Thread that "polls" this endpoint every 500 ms. It
> might even test the message; I don't remember. Once the response is
> anything other than 200 OK, then we know there is a problem and that the
> connection was most likely terminated.
>
> Therefore, it keeps the behavior of the HTTP connection between *Gfsh*
> and the Manager similar to the JMX RMI connection by returning...
>
> No longer connected to 10.99.199.10[1099].
>
> gfsh>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 10:36 AM, Jacob Barrett <jbarr...@pivotal.io>
> wrote:
>
>> For the older crowed I would have rather it replied:
>>
>> Ah, I see you have the machine that goes 'ping!'.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> > On Jul 13, 2017, at 10:23 AM, Jared Stewart <jstew...@pivotal.io>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > I'm young enough to recognize it as a Harry Potter reference, but I
>> have no
>> > idea what it's doing in our product code.
>> >
>> > - Jared
>> >
>> >> On Jul 13, 2017 10:14 AM, "Kirk Lund" <kl...@apache.org> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Anyone know why the response to a REST service PING returns "Mischief
>> >> Managed!?
>> >>
>> >> @RequestMapping(method = {RequestMethod.GET, RequestMethod.HEAD},
>> value =
>> >> "/ping")
>> >> public ResponseEntity<String> ping() {
>> >> return new ResponseEntity<String>("<html><body><h1>Mischief
>> >> Managed!</h1></body></html>",
>> >> HttpStatus.OK);
>> >> }
>> >>
>> >> <klund@Kirks-MacBook-Pro>/Users/klund/dev/geode [949]$ git grep
>> 'Mischief
>> >> Managed'
>> >> geode-core/src/main/java/org/apache/geode/management/
>> >> internal/web/controllers/ShellCommandsController.java:
>> >> return new ResponseEntity<String>("<html><body><h1>Mischief
>> >> Managed!</h1></body></html>",
>> >>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> -John
> john.blum10101 (skype)
>
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