[Py4j-users] A question about life cycle control of sockets in GatewayServer instance

[Jason Ni <jas...@gm...>]

Hello,

There is a List member "connections" in GatewayServer object. It holds
every socket object until the GatewayServer is shutdown. This may be not
good for this use case: the GatewayServer is providing a kind of service.
Python clients connect to the GatewayServer, do some communication, close
the connect and end the Python process, but not shutdown the server. After
many times of this kind of connections, I see those socket objects are held
in the "connections" list and not garbage collected.
Is this working as design or I did something wrong?

Thanks,

- Jason