Connection Status

I have a client application that establishes connections to several different servers at the same time. I would like to be able to monitor the status of each connection. For example, if a connection is closed or lost I would like to be able to display the status of the connection. My client application has a single communicator.

Using a slightly modified version of the HelloWorld example program that uses Ice::Application It doesn't appear that I'm able to catch the Ice exceptions that are being generated.

In my simple test I start the Hello server. Then I start the Hello client. Then I kill the server. The following exception is created by the client:

client.exe: warning: connection exception
.\TcpTransceiver.cpp:248 Ice::ConnectionLostException:

So the socket is getting the error, logging it, and re-throwing, but it not getting unwound to my main program. My main application has the following block of code.

int
main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
try
{
clientApp app;
return app.main(argc, argv);
}
catch(const Ice::Exception& ex)
{
cerr << "main: Ice::Exception." << endl;
cerr << ex << endl;
}
catch(...)
{
cerr << "main: Unhandled exception." << endl;
}
}


The catch blocks are never invoked. Even if I was able to trap the exception in my main application I'm still not sure I'm going to be able to accomplish what I would like to do. There doesn't appear to be a convenient method of mapping the exception back to a proxy.

Creating a callback method/methods within Ice seems to be another possiblity, but this would imply modifying Ice source.

Do you have any suggestions on how to best approach this problem?

Regards --Roland