Why is my ScheduledTask stopping when User Disconnects?

[JuliusBtesh]

My serverside (java) scheduledTask seems to be interrupted when a User gets Disconnected from the game room

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npcRunnerTask = SmartFoxServer.getInstance().getTaskScheduler().scheduleAtFixedRate
		(
                        
			npcRunner, 			
			0, 							// 0 initial delay
			100, 						// run every 100ms
			TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS		
		);

That was from the mmo demo room stuff that Im still using in my script. Nothing seems to be calling a stop or cancel for this task so I find it very odd that as soon as the user gets disconnected, the Runnable task stops running.

This needs to be handled asap, thank you!

[Lapo]

Hi,
any scheduled task will be stopped if you don't handle Exceptions yourself. That's the only condition in which it can be stopped outside of your control.

Make sure in your run() method you enclose all of your code with a try { ... } catch (Exception e) { ... } block so that you can capture any error and deal with it. I don't think the disconnection is directly involved in the problem but maybe, after it happens, one of your calls generates an exception which in turn causes the task to stop.

Hope it helps

[JuliusBtesh]

I will try putting the try/catch in this runnable task , I think I tried before and didnt catch anything.
It's weird because I have another scheduledtask that still continues its calls (But this one is not updated every second, this one gets called after a certain amount of time).
Nothing gets called once the User gets disconnected, which is exactly what I want. I just want the game to continue as is. I look at the logging in the SFS2X output and I see that it says that the user gets disconnected (which is expected) and then after a few more outputs of my runnable task, it just stops completely.

[JuliusBtesh]

Ok thank you very much! I was able to catch the problem. Very dumb mistake that I overlooked! Thank you once again