websocket server: closed connection threads are joined properly

ixwebsocket/IXConnectionState.cpp

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ namespace ix
 {
     std::atomic<uint64_t> ConnectionState::_globalId(0);
 
-    ConnectionState::ConnectionState()
+    ConnectionState::ConnectionState() : _terminated(false)
     {
         computeId();
     }
@@ -29,5 +29,15 @@ namespace ix
     {
         return std::make_shared<ConnectionState>();
     }
+
+    bool ConnectionState::isTerminated() const
+    {
+        return _terminated;
+    }
+
+    bool ConnectionState::setTerminated()
+    {
+        _terminated = true;
+    }
 }
 

ixwebsocket/IXConnectionState.h

@@ -21,9 +21,13 @@ namespace ix
         virtual void computeId();
         virtual const std::string& getId() const;
 
+        bool setTerminated();
+        bool isTerminated() const;
+
         static std::shared_ptr<ConnectionState> createConnectionState();
 
     protected:
+        std::atomic<bool> _terminated;
         std::string _id;
 
         static std::atomic<uint64_t> _globalId;

ixwebsocket/IXSocketServer.cpp

@@ -136,6 +136,9 @@ namespace ix
 
     void SocketServer::stop()
     {
+        closeTerminatedThreads();
+        assert(_connectionsThreads.empty());
+
         if (!_thread.joinable()) return; // nothing to do
 
         _stop = true;
@@ -152,18 +155,44 @@ namespace ix
         _connectionStateFactory = connectionStateFactory;
     }
 
+    // join the threads for connections that have been closed
+    void SocketServer::closeTerminatedThreads()
+    {
+        auto it = _connectionsThreads.begin();
+        auto itEnd  = _connectionsThreads.end();
+
+        while (it != itEnd)
+        {
+            auto& connectionState = it->first;
+            auto& thread = it->second;
+
+            if (!connectionState->isTerminated() ||
+                !thread.joinable())
+            {
+                ++it;
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            thread.join();
+            it = _connectionsThreads.erase(it);
+        }
+    }
+
     void SocketServer::run()
     {
         // Set the socket to non blocking mode, so that accept calls are not blocking
         SocketConnect::configure(_serverFd);
 
-        // Return value of std::async, ignored
-        std::future<void> f;
-
         for (;;)
         {
             if (_stop) return;
 
+            // Garbage collection to shutdown/join threads for closed connections.
+            // We could run this in its own thread, so that we dont need to accept 
+            // a new connection to close a thread.
+            // We could also use a condition variable to be notify when we need to do this
+            closeTerminatedThreads();
+
             // Use select to check whether a new connection is in progress
             fd_set rfds;
             struct timeval timeout;
@@ -228,14 +257,12 @@ namespace ix
             }
 
             // Launch the handleConnection work asynchronously in its own thread.
-            //
+            _connectionsThreads.push_back(std::make_pair(
-            // the destructor of a future returned by std::async blocks,
+                    connectionState,
-            // so we need to declare it outside of this loop
+                    std::thread(&SocketServer::handleConnection,
-            f = std::async(std::launch::async,
+                                this,
-                           &SocketServer::handleConnection,
+                                clientFd,
-                           this,
+                                connectionState)));
-                           clientFd,
-                           connectionState);
         }
     }
 }

ixwebsocket/IXSocketServer.h

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 #include <string>
 #include <set>
 #include <thread>
+#include <list>
 #include <mutex>
 #include <functional>
 #include <memory>
@@ -24,6 +25,10 @@ namespace ix
     public:
         using ConnectionStateFactory = std::function<std::shared_ptr<ConnectionState>()>;
 
+        // We use a list as we only care about remove and append operations.
+        using ConnectionThreads = std::list<std::pair<std::shared_ptr<ConnectionState>,
+                                                      std::thread>>;
+
         SocketServer(int port = SocketServer::kDefaultPort,
                      const std::string& host = SocketServer::kDefaultHost,
                      int backlog = SocketServer::kDefaultTcpBacklog,
@@ -63,6 +68,8 @@ namespace ix
         std::atomic<bool> _stop;
         std::thread _thread;
 
+        ConnectionThreads _connectionsThreads;
+
         std::condition_variable _conditionVariable;
         std::mutex _conditionVariableMutex;
 
@@ -74,5 +81,7 @@ namespace ix
         virtual void handleConnection(int fd,
                                       std::shared_ptr<ConnectionState> connectionState) = 0;
         virtual size_t getConnectedClientsCount() = 0;
+
+        void closeTerminatedThreads();
     };
 }

ixwebsocket/IXWebSocketServer.cpp

@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ namespace ix
         }
 
         logInfo("WebSocketServer::handleConnection() done");
+        connectionState->setTerminated();
     }
 
     std::set<std::shared_ptr<WebSocket>> WebSocketServer::getClients()