How to process SIGTERM signal gracefully in Java?

Question

Let's assume we have such a trivial daemon written in java:

public class Hellow {
    /**
     * @param args the command line arguments
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        while(true) {
            // 1. do
            // 2. some
            // 3. important
            // 4. job
            // 5. sleep
        }

    }
}

and we daemonize it using start-stop-daemon which by default sends SIGTERM (TERM) signal on --stop

Let's suppose the current step performed is #2. And at this very moment we're sending TERM signal.

What happens is that the execution terminates immediately.

I've found that I can handle the signal event using addShutdownHook() but the thing is that it still interrupts the current execution and passes the control to handler:

public class Hellow {
    private static boolean shutdownFlag = false;
    /**
     * @param args the command line arguments
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // TODO code application logic here
        registerShutdownHook();

        try {
            doProcessing();
        } catch (InterruptedException ex) {
            System.out.println(ex);
        }
    }

    static private void doProcessing() throws InterruptedException {
        int i = 0;
        while(shutdownFlag == false) {
            i++;
            System.out.println("i:" + i);
            if(i == 5) {
                System.out.println("i is 5");
                System.exit(1); // for testing
            }

            System.out.println("Hello"); // It doesn't print after System.exit(1);

            Thread.sleep(1000);
        }
    }

    static public void setShutdownProcess() {
        shutdownFlag = true;
    }

    private static void registerShutdownHook() {
        Runtime.getRuntime().addShutdownHook(new Thread() {
            public void run() {
                System.out.println("Tralala");
                Hellow.setShutdownProcess();
            }
        });
    }
}

So, my question is - is it possible to not interrupt the current execution but handle the TERM signal in a separated thread (?) so that I would able to set shutdown_flag = True so that loop in main would had a chance to stop gracefully?

Answer 1

I rewritten the registerShutdownHook() method and now it works as I wanted.

private static void registerShutdownHook() {
    final Thread mainThread = Thread.currentThread();
    Runtime.getRuntime().addShutdownHook(new Thread() {
        public void run() {
            try {
                System.out.println("Tralala");
                Hellow.setShutdownProcess();
                mainThread.join();
            } catch (InterruptedException ex) {
                System.out.println(ex);
            }

        }
    });  
}