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Testing HystrixContextScheduler Thread Management in Netflix Hystrix

This test suite evaluates the HystrixContextScheduler’s handling of thread interruption and unsubscription in Netflix’s Hystrix library. It verifies the proper cleanup of resources and thread management when operations are cancelled or unsubscribed.

Test Coverage Overview

The test suite focuses on verifying the unsubscription behavior of wrapped schedulers in Hystrix’s concurrency management.

Key areas covered include:

Thread interruption handling
Scheduler worker lifecycle management
Proper cleanup on unsubscription
Timing constraints for operation completion

Implementation Analysis

The testing approach utilizes JUnit’s timeout mechanism and concurrent utilities to validate scheduler behavior.

Key patterns include:

CountDownLatch for synchronization control
AtomicBoolean for thread-safe state tracking
RxJava Scheduler integration testing
Controlled thread sleep and interruption scenarios

Technical Details

Testing infrastructure includes:

JUnit 4 testing framework
RxJava Schedulers
Java concurrent utilities (CountDownLatch, AtomicBoolean)
Hystrix concurrency management components
Thread manipulation utilities

Best Practices Demonstrated

The test demonstrates several quality testing practices:

Proper resource cleanup in try-finally blocks
Explicit timeout constraints
Thread-safe state verification
Controlled concurrency testing
Clear separation of setup, execution, and verification phases

netflix/hystrix

hystrix-core/src/test/java/com/netflix/hystrix/strategy/concurrency/HystrixContextSchedulerTest.java

            
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package com.netflix.hystrix.strategy.concurrency;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;

import java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean;

import org.junit.Test;

import rx.Scheduler;
import rx.functions.Action0;
import rx.schedulers.Schedulers;

public class HystrixContextSchedulerTest {
    
    @Test(timeout = 2500)
    public void testUnsubscribeWrappedScheduler() throws InterruptedException {
        Scheduler s = Schedulers.newThread();
        final AtomicBoolean interrupted = new AtomicBoolean();
        final CountDownLatch start = new CountDownLatch(1);
        final CountDownLatch end = new CountDownLatch(1);

        HystrixContextScheduler hcs = new HystrixContextScheduler(s);

        Scheduler.Worker w = hcs.createWorker();
        try {
            w.schedule(new Action0() {
                @Override
                public void call() {
                    start.countDown();
                    try {
                        try {
                            Thread.sleep(5000);
                        } catch (InterruptedException ex) {
                            interrupted.set(true);
                        }
                    } finally {
                        end.countDown();
                    }
                }
            });
            
            start.await();
            
            w.unsubscribe();
            
            end.await();
            
            assertTrue(interrupted.get());
        } finally {
            w.unsubscribe();
        }
    }
}