plugin can block on close due threading issue

[kares]

Quick and dirty reproducer on trying to close the identity_map_codec (with running cleaner thread):

require 'logstash-core'

require 'logstash/codecs/plain'
require 'logstash/codecs/identity_map_codec'

def start_codec(identity: Object.new)
  codec = LogStash::Codecs::Plain.new(Hash.new)
  codec = LogStash::Codecs::IdentityMapCodec.new(codec)
  codec.close # file input does it this way - closes the codec before use
  codec.send :stream_codec, identity # cleaner and auto-flusher threads start again on first use
  codec
end

def start_threads!
  100.times.map do |i|
    Thread.start do
      Thread.current.name = "t-#{i}"
      begin
        codec = start_codec
        Thread.pass
        codec.cleaner.stop # a more direct codec.close
      rescue => e
        puts "ERROR: #{e.inspect}\n  #{e.backtrace.join("\n  ")}"
      end
    end
  end
end

start = Time.now
iteration = 0
loop do
  iteration += 1

  puts "Elapsed time: #{Time.now - start}, iteration: #{iteration}"

  threads = start_threads!

  sleep(1.0)

  threads.each do |thread|
    if thread.alive?
      sleep(5)
      if thread.alive?
        puts "Elapsed time: #{Time.now - start}"
        puts "LOCKED THREAD FOUND: #{thread.name} #{thread.inspect}"
        sleep(60)
        if thread.alive?
          puts "BUG: thread (still) alive after 60seconds"
          exit(1)
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

more real-world details at: https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-input-file/issues/298