Discarded messages are still counted as pending about vertx-dropwizard-metrics

[vietj]

cc @jotak

[jotak]

@vietj While fixing this on micrometer I had a quick look on dropwizard too and I thought it was already handled, see https://github.com/vert-x3/vertx-dropwizard-metrics/blob/master/src/main/java/io/vertx/ext/dropwizard/impl/EventBusMetricsImpl.java#L280-L282 => pending gauges are reset.

Or, is there some situations where messages are discarded without the handler being removed?

For micrometer, I believe vert-x3/vertx-micrometer-metrics#98 did fix it, pending count being reset on unregistration.

[vietj]

@jotak yes it happens when a consumer is paused and messages are dropped due to overflow, e.g

MessageConsumer<String> consumer = eventBus.consumer("foo");
consumer.setMaxBufferedMessages(10);
consumer.pause();
consumer.handler(msg -> ...);

for (int i = 0;i < 10;i++) {
  eventBus.send("foo", "msg-" + i);
}
eventBus.send("foo", "msg-11"); // Shall be discarded due to overflow without consumer being unregistered