* automate the process, often adding features like monitoring, debugging, and cancellation.
 * Examples of frameworks include:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li><a href="https://dagger.dev/producers.html">Dagger Producers</a>
 * </ul>
 *
 * <p>The main purpose of {@link #addListener addListener} is to support this chaining. You will
 * rarely use it directly, in part because it does not provide direct access to the {@code Future}

 * automate the process, often adding features like monitoring, debugging, and cancellation.
 * Examples of frameworks include:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li><a href="https://dagger.dev/producers.html">Dagger Producers</a>
 * </ul>
 *
 * <p>The main purpose of {@link #addListener addListener} is to support this chaining. You will
 * rarely use it directly, in part because it does not provide direct access to the {@code Future}

 *   <li>It doesn't offer a way to wait for multiple events before taking action. For example, it
 *       doesn't offer a way to wait for multiple producers to all report that they're "ready," nor
 *       does it offer a way to batch multiple events from a single producer together.
 *   <li>It doesn't support backpressure and other features needed for resilience.
 *   <li>It doesn't provide much control of threading.

 * use a framework. Frameworks automate the process, often adding features like monitoring,
 * debugging, and cancellation. Examples of frameworks include:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li><a href="https://dagger.dev/producers.html">Dagger Producers</a>
 * </ul>
 *
 * <h4>{@link java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture} / {@link java.util.concurrent.CompletionStage}
 * </h4>
 *

 * inserted by producers and extracted by consumers. Once created, the capacity cannot be increased.
 * Attempts to {@code put} an element into a full queue will result in the operation blocking;
 * attempts to {@code take} an element from an empty queue will similarly block.
 *
 * <p>This class supports an optional fairness policy for ordering waiting producer and consumer

 * inserted by producers and extracted by consumers. Once created, the capacity cannot be increased.
 * Attempts to {@code put} an element into a full queue will result in the operation blocking;
 * attempts to {@code take} an element from an empty queue will similarly block.
 *
 * <p>This class supports an optional fairness policy for ordering waiting producer and consumer

 * monitoring, debugging, and cancellation. Examples of frameworks include:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li><a href="https://dagger.dev/producers.html">Dagger Producers</a>
 * </ul>
 *
 * <p>If you do chain your operations manually, you may want to use {@link FluentFuture}.
 *
 * @author Kevin Bourrillion
 * @author Nishant Thakkar
 * @author Sven Mawson

	}
	return target.isActive()
}

func (target *NSQTarget) isActive() (bool, error) {
	if target.producer == nil {
		producer, err := nsq.NewProducer(target.args.NSQDAddress.String(), target.config)
		if err != nil {
			return false, err
		}
		target.producer = producer
	}

	if err := target.producer.Ping(); err != nil {
		// To treat "connection refused" errors as errNotConnected.
		if xnet.IsConnRefusedErr(err) {

      assertEquals(0, Queues.drain(q, ImmutableList.of(), 1, 10, MILLISECONDS));

      Producer producer = new Producer(q, 1);
      // producing one, will ask for two
      Future<?> producerThread = threadPool.submit(producer);
      producer.beganProducing.await();

      // make sure we time out
      Stopwatch timer = Stopwatch.createStarted();

	config.Producer.Retry.Max = 2
	config.Producer.Retry.Backoff = (1 * time.Second)
	config.Producer.Return.Successes = true
	config.Producer.Return.Errors = true
	config.Producer.RequiredAcks = 1
	config.Producer.Timeout = (5 * time.Second)
	// Set Producer Compression
	cc, ok := codecs[strings.ToLower(args.Producer.Compression)]
	if ok {
		config.Producer.Compression = cc