Question

After some usage, HttpClient seems to block here, causing my whole app to freeze:

Thread [main] (Suspended)   
    Unsafe.park(boolean, long) line: not available [native method]  
    LockSupport.park(Object) line: 186  
    AbstractQueuedSynchronizer$ConditionObject.await() line: 2043   
    AbstractConnPool$2(PoolEntryFuture<T>).await(Date) line: 131    
    HttpConnPool(AbstractConnPool<T,C,E>).getPoolEntryBlocking(T, Object, long, TimeUnit, PoolEntryFuture<E>) line: 281 
    AbstractConnPool<T,C,E>.access$000(AbstractConnPool, Object, Object, long, TimeUnit, PoolEntryFuture) line: 62  
    AbstractConnPool$2.getPoolEntry(long, TimeUnit) line: 176   
    AbstractConnPool$2.getPoolEntry(long, TimeUnit) line: 172   
    AbstractConnPool$2(PoolEntryFuture<T>).get(long, TimeUnit) line: 100    
    PoolingClientConnectionManager.leaseConnection(Future<HttpPoolEntry>, long, TimeUnit) line: 212 
    PoolingClientConnectionManager$1.getConnection(long, TimeUnit) line: 199    
    DefaultRequestDirector.execute(HttpHost, HttpRequest, HttpContext) line: 453    
    ContentEncodingHttpClient(AbstractHttpClient).execute(HttpHost, HttpRequest, HttpContext) line: 927 
    ContentEncodingHttpClient(AbstractHttpClient).execute(HttpUriRequest, HttpContext) line: 826    
    ContentEncodingHttpClient(AbstractHttpClient).execute(HttpUriRequest) line: 804 
    ...

I don’t see any “close()” or “release()” method on the returned HttpResponse, what am I not doing here that I need to be doing?

Per request, here is my code:

final HttpResponse hr = Misc.httpClient.execute(hg);
if (hr.getEntity().getContentType().getValue().toLowerCase().contains("html")) {
    final Document doc = Jsoup.parse(hr.getEntity().getContent(), ContentType.getOrDefault(hr.getEntity()).getCharset(), urlAsString);
    processDocument(url, doc);
} else if (hr.getEntity().getContentType().getValue().toLowerCase().contains("text/xml")) {
    final SyndFeedInput input = new SyndFeedInput();

    rssFeed = input.build(new InputStreamReader(hr.getEntity().getContent()));
}

Answer 1

The InputStream that you get from your HttpResponse needs to have close() called on it. There’s no close() for HttpResponse itself.

For example, when you get your HttpResponse and call getEntity() to get an HttpEntity, calling getContent() to get the InputStream, after you’ve done reading the content, call close() on the InputStream.