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Posted to users@tomcat.apache.org by Harri Pesonen <ha...@sinch.com> on 2022/04/13 11:32:02 UTC
Reconfiguring Tomcat application without restart
Hello, is it possible to change the context file in
$CATALINA_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost/app.xml
so that application would get the new configuration without restarting?
I could not find such thing in servlet specification.
Or would it be possible to manually read the file from the application, for example once a minute?
Now the application gets the configuration from init():
javax.servlet.GenericServlet.java
/**
* Called by the servlet container to indicate to a servlet that the
* servlet is being placed into service. See {@link Servlet#init}.
*
* <p>This implementation stores the {@link ServletConfig}
* object it receives from the servlet container for later use.
* When overriding this form of the method, call
* <code>super.init(config)</code>.
*
* @param config the <code>ServletConfig</code> object
* that contains configutation
* information for this servlet
*
* @exception ServletException if an exception occurs that
* interrupts the servlet's normal
* operation
*
* @see UnavailableException
*/
public void init(ServletConfig config) throws ServletException {
this.config = config;
this.init();
}
I suppose that getServletConfig() returns the same cached data without re-reading it from disk?
/**
* Returns this servlet's {@link ServletConfig} object.
*
* @return ServletConfig the <code>ServletConfig</code> object
* that initialized this servlet
*/
public ServletConfig getServletConfig() {
return config;
}
-Harri
RE: Reconfiguring Tomcat application without restart
Posted by Harri Pesonen <ha...@sinch.com>.
Hello, so we have application that should get a new configuration, CORS in this case, on the fly, without restarting the application, because it can have thousands of active connections.
Currently the configuration is stored in this application configuration file
$CATALINA_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost/app.xml
and application gets it on startup and implements CORS restrictions. We have a need to change the configuration every now and then.
For example, I could possibly read the file once a minute, parse XML etc. and update settings, unless Tomcat is prohibiting the file access.
Application does not necessarily know the file path though, so it should be hard coded, which would be bad.
Tomcat has the code somewhere to do it, but it is likely an internal class.
We can workaround this by saving the configuration elsewhere, like in Windows registry, and read it from there once a minute.
Or we could save it to database.
But currently the configuration is in this deployment descriptor file, so I am asking if this has come up before.
Is there any other "standard" way of having mutable configuration for Tomcat application?
-Harri
-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net>
Sent: keskiviikko 13. huhtikuuta 2022 19.20
To: users@tomcat.apache.org
Subject: Re: Reconfiguring Tomcat application without restart
Harri,
On 4/13/22 07:32, Harri Pesonen wrote:
> Hello, is it possible to change the context file in
>
> $CATALINA_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost/app.xml
>
> so that application would get the new configuration without restarting?
Without restarting... what exactly? And what would you want to change?
Usually the things in that deployment descriptor are pretty fundamental to how the application starts-up, etc.
> I could not find such thing in servlet specification.
The servlet spec doesn't have anything like this in there, but Tomcat does. Sort of, depending upon exactly what you are trying to accomplish.
> Or would it be possible to manually read the file from the application, for example once a minute?
> Now the application gets the configuration from init():
>
> javax.servlet.GenericServlet.java
>
> /**
> * Called by the servlet container to indicate to a servlet that the
> * servlet is being placed into service. See {@link Servlet#init}.
> *
> * <p>This implementation stores the {@link ServletConfig}
> * object it receives from the servlet container for later use.
> * When overriding this form of the method, call
> * <code>super.init(config)</code>.
> *
> * @param config the <code>ServletConfig</code> object
> * that contains configutation
> * information for this servlet
> *
> * @exception ServletException if an exception occurs that
> * interrupts the servlet's normal
> * operation
> *
> * @see UnavailableException
> */
> public void init(ServletConfig config) throws ServletException {
> this.config = config;
> this.init();
> }
>
> I suppose that getServletConfig() returns the same cached data without re-reading it from disk?
>
> /**
> * Returns this servlet's {@link ServletConfig} object.
> *
> * @return ServletConfig the <code>ServletConfig</code> object
> * that initialized this servlet
> */
> public ServletConfig getServletConfig() {
> return config;
> }
Can you be more specific about what you want to achieve? I have some ideas, but before I send you down a potentially confusing path, it would be good to understand your goals.
-chris
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Re: Reconfiguring Tomcat application without restart
Posted by Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net>.
Harri,
On 4/13/22 07:32, Harri Pesonen wrote:
> Hello, is it possible to change the context file in
>
> $CATALINA_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost/app.xml
>
> so that application would get the new configuration without restarting?
Without restarting... what exactly? And what would you want to change?
Usually the things in that deployment descriptor are pretty fundamental
to how the application starts-up, etc.
> I could not find such thing in servlet specification.
The servlet spec doesn't have anything like this in there, but Tomcat
does. Sort of, depending upon exactly what you are trying to accomplish.
> Or would it be possible to manually read the file from the application, for example once a minute?
> Now the application gets the configuration from init():
>
> javax.servlet.GenericServlet.java
>
> /**
> * Called by the servlet container to indicate to a servlet that the
> * servlet is being placed into service. See {@link Servlet#init}.
> *
> * <p>This implementation stores the {@link ServletConfig}
> * object it receives from the servlet container for later use.
> * When overriding this form of the method, call
> * <code>super.init(config)</code>.
> *
> * @param config the <code>ServletConfig</code> object
> * that contains configutation
> * information for this servlet
> *
> * @exception ServletException if an exception occurs that
> * interrupts the servlet's normal
> * operation
> *
> * @see UnavailableException
> */
> public void init(ServletConfig config) throws ServletException {
> this.config = config;
> this.init();
> }
>
> I suppose that getServletConfig() returns the same cached data without re-reading it from disk?
>
> /**
> * Returns this servlet's {@link ServletConfig} object.
> *
> * @return ServletConfig the <code>ServletConfig</code> object
> * that initialized this servlet
> */
> public ServletConfig getServletConfig() {
> return config;
> }
Can you be more specific about what you want to achieve? I have some
ideas, but before I send you down a potentially confusing path, it would
be good to understand your goals.
-chris
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