Solve timeouts by touching analysis.json.

[remoteglot] / www / serve-analysis.js

diff --git a/www/serve-analysis.js b/www/serve-analysis.js
index 4f0d2f010376df9748333a58a985c0fbbf1bcd21..362b14b6f0984754b4fcf0f17a6fc7c47d1ad0a6 100644 (file)
--- a/www/serve-analysis.js
+++ b/www/serve-analysis.js
@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@ var json_contents = undefined;
 var json_contents_gz = undefined;
 var json_last_modified = undefined;
 
-// The list of clients that are waiting for new data to show up,
-// and their associated timers. Uniquely keyed by request_id
-// so that we can take them out of the queue if they time out.
+// The list of clients that are waiting for new data to show up.
+// Uniquely keyed by request_id so that we can take them out of
+// the queue if they close the socket.
 var sleeping_clients = {};
 var request_id = 0;
 
@@ -27,6 +27,11 @@ var request_id = 0;
 // Used to show a viewer count to the user.
 var last_seen_clients = {};
 
+// The timer used to touch the file every 30 seconds if nobody
+// else does it for us. This makes sure we don't have clients
+// hanging indefinitely (which might have them return errors).
+var touch_timer = undefined;
+
 var reread_file = function(event, filename) {
        if (filename != path.basename(json_filename)) {
                return;
@@ -52,11 +57,19 @@ var reread_file = function(event, filename) {
                        });
                });
        });
+
+       if (touch_timer !== undefined) {
+               clearTimeout(touch_timer);
+       }
+       touch_timer = setTimeout(function() {
+               console.log("Touching analysis.json due to no other activity");
+               var now = Date.now() / 1000;
+               fs.utimes(json_filename, now, now);
+       }, 30000);
 }
 var possibly_wakeup_clients = function() {
        var num_viewers = count_viewers();
        for (var i in sleeping_clients) {
-               clearTimeout(sleeping_clients[i].timer);
                mark_recently_seen(sleeping_clients[i].unique);
                send_json(sleeping_clients[i].response,
                          sleeping_clients[i].accept_gzip,
@@ -91,11 +104,6 @@ var send_json = function(response, accept_gzip, num_viewers) {
        }
        response.end();
 }
-var timeout_client = function(client) {
-       mark_recently_seen(client.unique);
-       send_json(client.response, client.accept_gzip, count_viewers());
-       delete sleeping_clients[client.request_id];
-}
 var mark_recently_seen = function(unique) {
        if (unique) {
                last_seen_clients[unique] = (new Date).getTime();
@@ -163,11 +171,9 @@ server.on('request', function(request, response) {
        }
 
        // OK, so we need to hang until we have something newer.
-       // Put the user on the wait list; if we don't get anything
-       // in 30 seconds, though, we'll send something anyway.
+       // Put the user on the wait list.
        var client = {};
        client.response = response;
-       client.timer = setTimeout(function() { timeout_client(client); }, 30000);
        client.request_id = request_id;
        client.accept_gzip = accept_gzip;
        client.unique = unique;