Проблема с Netty IdleStateHandler - неправильно ли я тестирую?

У меня есть игрушечный сервер Netty, и я пытаюсь отправлять контрольные сообщения клиентам, когда на их каналах ничего не происходит. Я тестирую это, подключаясь к серверу по telnet, записывая сообщение, а затем ничего не отправляя, но у меня нет пульса!

Консоль:

>>telnet localhost 6969
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
>>foo
Did you say 'foo'?

MyPipelineFactory.java

public class MyPipelineFactory implements ChannelPipelineFactory {
    private final Timer timer;
    private static final ChannelHandler stringDecoder = new StringDecoder();
    private static final ChannelHandler stringEncoder = new StringEncoder();
    private final ChannelHandler idleStateHandler;

    public MyPipelineFactory(Timer t) {
        this.timer = t;
        this.idleStateHandler = new IdleStateHandler(timer, 5, 5, 5);
    }

    public ChannelPipeline getPipeline() {
        // create default pipeline from static method
        ChannelPipeline pipeline = Channels.pipeline();
        pipeline.addLast("idleStateHandler", this.idleStateHandler); // heartbeat
        pipeline.addLast("framer", new DelimiterBasedFrameDecoder(1024, Delimiters.lineDelimiter()));
        //pipeline.addLast("frameDecoder", new LengthFieldBasedFrameDecoder(1024,0,1)); // get header from message
        pipeline.addLast("stringDecoder", stringDecoder);
        pipeline.addLast("stringEncoder", stringEncoder);
        pipeline.addLast("ServerHandler", new ServerHandler()); // goes at the end

        return pipeline;
    }
}

HeartbeatHandler.java

public class HeartbeatHandler extends IdleStateAwareChannelHandler {

    @Override
    public void channelIdle(ChannelHandlerContext ctx, IdleStateEvent e) {
        if (e.getState() == IdleState.READER_IDLE) {
            System.out.println("Reader idle, closing channel");
            //e.getChannel().close();
            e.getChannel().write("heartbeat-reader_idle");
        }
        else if (e.getState() == IdleState.WRITER_IDLE) {
            System.out.println("Writer idle, sending heartbeat");
            e.getChannel().write("heartbeat-writer_idle");
        }
        else if (e.getState() == IdleState.ALL_IDLE) {
            System.out.println("All idle, sending heartbeat");
            e.getChannel().write("heartbeat-all_idle");
        }
    }
}

Исправлено:

Я забыл иметь HeartbeatHandler, который требует IdleStateHandler (эта часть не была очевидна для меня). Это работает.

public class MyPipelineFactory implements ChannelPipelineFactory {
    private final Timer timer;
    private static final ChannelHandler stringDecoder = new StringDecoder();
    private static final ChannelHandler stringEncoder = new StringEncoder();
    private final ChannelHandler idleStateHandler;
    private final ChannelHandler heartbeatHandler;

    public MyPipelineFactory(Timer t) {
        this.timer = t;
        this.idleStateHandler = new IdleStateHandler(timer, 5, 5, 5);
        this.heartbeatHandler = new HeartbeatHandler();
    }

    public ChannelPipeline getPipeline() {
        // create default pipeline from static method
        ChannelPipeline pipeline = Channels.pipeline();
        pipeline.addLast("idleStateHandler", this.idleStateHandler);
        pipeline.addLast("heartbeatHandler", this.heartbeatHandler); // heartbeat
        pipeline.addLast("framer", new DelimiterBasedFrameDecoder(1024, Delimiters.lineDelimiter()));
        //pipeline.addLast("frameDecoder", new LengthFieldBasedFrameDecoder(1024,0,1)); // get header from message
        pipeline.addLast("stringDecoder", stringDecoder);
        pipeline.addLast("stringEncoder", stringEncoder);
        pipeline.addLast("ServerHandler", new ServerHandler()); // goes at the end

        return pipeline;
    }
}