异步处理准许Servlet重新发起一条新线程区调用耗时的业务方法,可以避免等待。
Servlet3.0的异步处理时通过AsyncContext类来处理的,Servlet可以通过ServletRequest的如下两个方法开启异步调用,创建AsyncContext对象
AsyncContext startAsync()
AsyncContext startAsync(ServletRequest ,ServletResponse)
重复调用上面的方法将得到同一个AsyncContext对象。AsyncContext对象代表异步处理的上下文,它提供了一些工具方法,可以完成设置异步调用的超时时间,dispatch用于请求、启动后台线程、获取request、response对象等功能。
package com.xxx.action;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.util.Date;
import javax.servlet.AsyncContext;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.annotation.WebServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
@WebServlet(name="async",urlPatterns="/async",asyncSupported=true)
public class AsyncServlet extends HttpServlet {
@Override
protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException {
response.setContentType("text/html;charset=GBK");
PrintWriter out=response.getWriter();
out.println("<title>异步调用示例</title>");
out.println("进入servlet的时间:"+new Date()+"<br/>");
out.flush();
//创建AsyncContext,开始异步调用
AsyncContext actx=request.startAsync();
//设置异步调用的超时时间
actx.setTimeout(30*1000);
//启动异步调用的线程
actx.start(new Executor(actx));
out.println("结束servlet的时间:"+new Date()+"<br/>");
out.flush();
}
}
package com.xxx.action;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import javax.servlet.AsyncContext;
import javax.servlet.ServletRequest;
public class Executor implements Runnable {
private AsyncContext actx=null;
public Executor() {
}
public Executor(AsyncContext actx) {
super();
this.actx = actx;
}
@Override
public void run() {
try {
Thread.sleep(5*1000);
ServletRequest request=actx.getRequest();
List<String> books=new ArrayList<String>();
books.add("book1");
books.add("book2");
request.setAttribute("books", books);
actx.dispatch("/async.jsp");
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
<%@ page language="java" import="java.util.*" pageEncoding="GBK"%>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>My JSP 'async.jsp' starting page</title>
</head>
<body>
<ul>
<c:forEach items="${books}" var="book">
<li>${book}</li>
</c:forEach>
</ul>
<% out.println("业务调用结束的时间:"+new java.util.Date());
//完成异步调用
request.getAsyncContext().complete();
%>
</body>
</html>
为servlet开启异步调用有两种方式:
@WebServlet指定asyncSupported=true
在web.xml文件的<servlet>元素中添加<async-supported.../>子元素
通过web.xml文件中配置
<servlet>
<servlet-name>async</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.xxx.action.AsyncServlet</servlet-class>
<!-- 开启异步调用支持 -->
<async-supported>true</async-supported>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>async</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/async</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>