[ecf-dev] sendRetrieveRequest blocking

[Henrich Kraemer <henrich.kraemer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

When one retrieves a file using IRetrieveFileTransferContainerAdapter#sendRetrieveRequest() the initial request is send in the same thread which may cause blocking.
For example as manifested in https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=248555.

The Java Doc talk about the fact that events being delivered asynchronously. This led me to believe that this call would never block although the JavaDoc does not strictly specify this.
Should it never block, meaning that the initial IO will be done in another thread?
Is this a provider implementation issue?

Thanks,

Henrich