@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ channel, we use a state machine with four states, defined below:
CONNECTING: The channel is trying to establish a connection and is waiting to
make progress on one of the steps involved in name resolution, TCP connection
establishment or TLS handshake. This is the initial state for all channels upon
establishment or TLS handshake. This may be used as the initial state for channels upon
creation.
READY: The channel has successfully established a connection all the way
@ -37,11 +37,10 @@ state. For many non-fatal failures (e.g., TCP connection attempts timing out
because the server is not yet available), the channel may be stuck in this
state for an indefinitely large amount of time.
FATAL_FAILURE: There has been a fatal failure and the channel will never
attempt to establish a connection again. (e.g., a server presenting an invalid
TLS certificate)
IDLE: This is the state where the channel is not even trying to create a connection because of a lack of new or pending RPCs. New channels MAY be created in this state. Any attempt to start an RPC on the channel will push the channel out of this state to connecting. When there has been no RPC activity on a channel for a specified IDLE_TIMEOUT, i.e., no new or pending (active) RPCs for this period, channels that are READY or CONNECTING switch to IDLE. Additionaly, channels that receive a GO_AWAY when there are no active or pending RPCs should also switch to IDLE to avoid connection overload at servers that are attempting to shed connections. We will use a default IDLE_TIMEOUT of 300 seconds (5 minutes).
Channels that enter this state never leave this state.
SHUTDOWN: This channel has started shutting down. Any new RPCs should fail immediately. Pending RPCs may continue running till the application cancels them. Channels may enter this state either because the application explicitly requested a shutdown or if a non-recoverable error has happened during attempts to connect communicate . (As of 6/12/2015, there are no known errors (while connecting or communicating) that are classified as non-recoverable)
Channels that enter this state never leave this state.
The following table lists the legal transitions from one state to another and