Graceful termination of Rocket application

[antekone]

I'm using Rocket 0.3.16.

Is there a way to make Rocket break its main loop and quit the application gracefully?

I'm trying to convert my Rocket application to a Windows Service. A Windows Service apparently needs Rocket application to be spawned in a different thread, and reserve its main thread to receive/process Windows Service events. To properly handle the Stop signal, the main application should terminate the Rocket thread gracefully, so I can't simply use std::process:exit().

I couldn't find any mention of how to quit the Rocket app. The documentation only says that the Rocket::launch() function never returns, so this might be unsupported?

Currently I'm using conditional compilation on Windows; I'm importing kernel32 crate, and I'm performing an unsafe call to TerminateThread. It's nowhere near the proper solution and I'd like to change it.

[jebrosen]

Clean shutdown is desired at some point (see #180). Today, though, I think non-graceful termination through TerminateThread or spawning a Rocket server in a child process to kill later is the only working solution.

[SergioBenitez]

Closing as a duplicate of #180.