Transport timeout option not functioning properly

[ryan-mccaffrey]

I've tried setting the timeout option in the Transport constructor to timeout=10 and simulated a timeout by disabling my wifi. I found that it took about 3 minutes for the request to return a ReadTimeout error. Trying a second time, the error came back after 1 minute, which is not only the 10 seconds I specified, but also inconsistent with the 3 minutes from before.

My code is as below:

transport = Transport(http_auth=(username, apiKey), timeout=10)
connection = Client(wsdl=myURL, transport=transport)

If I'm doing something wrong, any tips would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[mvantellingen]

Seems that the timeout for now is only used for loading wsdl/xsd files. Not for XML POST/GET requests. That should probably be added (and perhaps as another kwarg).

[ryan-mccaffrey]

Speaking of POST/GET requests, is there a way to access the properties of the HTTP responses from the requests? I'm currently trying to figure out how to get the response's status code.

[mvantellingen]

You can achieve this by subclassing the tranport class and keeping a reference to the last response object there. It's discussed a bit in #91.

[beager]

+1 to this, XML POST/GET should use the timeout given. Less importantly, being allowed to specify timeouts on a per-binding or per-request basis might be good.

[mvantellingen]

This can now be done via::

transport = Transport(operation_timeout=360)
client = Client(url, transport=transport)

Or

client = Client(url)
with client.options(timeout=360):
    clients.service.slow_call()