LoadBalancerCheckProvider.java

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package org.keycloak.health;

import org.keycloak.provider.Provider;

/**
 * This interface is used for controlling load balancer. If one of the implementations reports that it is down,
 * the load balancer endpoint will return the {@code DOWN} status.
 *
 */
@FunctionalInterface
public interface LoadBalancerCheckProvider extends Provider {

    /**
     * Check if a component represented by this check is down/unhealthy.
     * <p />
     * The implementation must be non-blocking as it is executed in the event loop.
     * It is necessary to run this in the event loop as blocking requests are queued and then the check
     * would time out on the loadbalancer side when there is an overload situation in Keycloak.
     * An automatic failover to the secondary site due to an overloaded primary site is desired as this could
     * lead to a ping-pong between the sites where the primary site becomes available again once the switchover
     * is complete.
     *
     * @return true if the component is down/unhealthy, false otherwise
     */
    boolean isDown();

    @Override
    default void close() {
        //no-op by default
    }
}