How should I handle “java.net.SocketException: Connection reset” in multithread AWS S3 file upload?

I have a ThreadPoolExecutorService to which I’m submitting runnable jobs that are uploading large (1-2 GB) files to Amazon’s S3 file system, using the AWS Java SDK. Occasionally one of my worker threads will report a java.net.SocketException with “Connection reset” as the cause and then die.

AWS doesn’t use checked exceptions so I actually can’t catch SocketException directly—it must be wrapped somehow. My question is how I should deal with this problem so I can retry any problematic uploads and increase the reliability of my program.

Would the Multipart Upload API be more reliable?

Is there some exception I can reliably catch to enable retries?

Here’s the stack trace. The com.example.* code is mine. Basically what the DataProcessorAWS call does is call putObject(String bucketName, String key, File file) on an instance of AmazonS3Client that’s shared across threads.

14/12/11 18:43:17 INFO http.AmazonHttpClient: Unable to execute HTTP request: Connection reset
java.net.SocketException: Connection reset
    at java.net.SocketOutputStream.socketWrite(SocketOutputStream.java:118)
    at java.net.SocketOutputStream.write(SocketOutputStream.java:159)
    at sun.security.ssl.OutputRecord.writeBuffer(OutputRecord.java:377)
    at sun.security.ssl.OutputRecord.write(OutputRecord.java:363)
    at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.writeRecordInternal(SSLSocketImpl.java:830)
    at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.writeRecord(SSLSocketImpl.java:801)
    at sun.security.ssl.AppOutputStream.write(AppOutputStream.java:122)
    at org.apache.http.impl.io.AbstractSessionOutputBuffer.write(AbstractSessionOutputBuffer.java:169)
    at org.apache.http.impl.io.ContentLengthOutputStream.write(ContentLengthOutputStream.java:119)
    at org.apache.http.entity.InputStreamEntity.writeTo(InputStreamEntity.java:102)
    at com.amazonaws.http.RepeatableInputStreamRequestEntity.writeTo(RepeatableInputStreamRequestEntity.java:153)
    at org.apache.http.entity.HttpEntityWrapper.writeTo(HttpEntityWrapper.java:98)
    at org.apache.http.impl.client.EntityEnclosingRequestWrapper$EntityWrapper.writeTo(EntityEnclosingRequestWrapper.java:108)
    at org.apache.http.impl.entity.EntitySerializer.serialize(EntitySerializer.java:122)
    at org.apache.http.impl.AbstractHttpClientConnection.sendRequestEntity(AbstractHttpClientConnection.java:271)
    at org.apache.http.impl.conn.ManagedClientConnectionImpl.sendRequestEntity(ManagedClientConnectionImpl.java:197)
    at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpRequestExecutor.doSendRequest(HttpRequestExecutor.java:257)
    at com.amazonaws.http.protocol.SdkHttpRequestExecutor.doSendRequest(SdkHttpRequestExecutor.java:47)
    at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpRequestExecutor.execute(HttpRequestExecutor.java:125)
    at org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector.tryExecute(DefaultRequestDirector.java:715)
    at org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector.execute(DefaultRequestDirector.java:520)
    at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:906)
    at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:805)
    at com.amazonaws.http.AmazonHttpClient.executeOneRequest(AmazonHttpClient.java:685)
    at com.amazonaws.http.AmazonHttpClient.executeHelper(AmazonHttpClient.java:460)
    at com.amazonaws.http.AmazonHttpClient.execute(AmazonHttpClient.java:295)
    at com.amazonaws.services.s3.AmazonS3Client.invoke(AmazonS3Client.java:3697)
    at com.amazonaws.services.s3.AmazonS3Client.putObject(AmazonS3Client.java:1434)
    at com.amazonaws.services.s3.AmazonS3Client.putObject(AmazonS3Client.java:1294)
    at com.example.DataProcessorAWS$HitWriter.close(DataProcessorAWS.java:156)
    at com.example.DataProcessorAWS$Processor.run(DataProcessorAWS.java:264)
    at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

Answer

The javadoc says that putObject() throws AmazonClientException when this kind of error occurs. AmazonClientException has a method called isRetryable(), you can try with that.