Allow configuration of Netty NIO boss executor

[trask]

Hi, I couldn't find a way to supply my own ExecutorService instance for this particular thread pool without modifying your library (I wish to use a custom ThreadFactory for it). Initially I thought of adding this as a configuration parameter in AsyncHttpClientConfig, but then realized AsyncHttpClientConfig is not Netty specific and so I decided maybe it wasn't appropriate there and just added an extra constructor in NettyAsyncHttpProvider to handle this. Please let me know if I missed something or if there is another solution you would prefer that I implement. Thanks.

[jfarcand]

Hi, I added support for what you wanted using the NettyAsyncHttpProviderConfig element. All you need to do is to described here

https://github.com/sonatype/async-http-client/commit/26d4a37b1cbe6c1f5fda8f5d5b01bcc274f99142#L2R30

Thanks!

-- Jeanfrancois

[trask]

Great, thank you.

[astubbs]

trask, was this so that you could get netty to use threads from your own thread pool? like an Akka dispatcher?

[jfarcand]

@astubbs That was for allowing configure two threads pools (hence you can use Akka stuff for both): The Netty's boss executor (used by Netty internally) and the applicationThreadPool (which is configurable using the AsyncHttpClientConfig).

[astubbs]

Cool. Problem is, I can't see how to get a java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService out of an Akka dispatcher..