Increasing timeout

If you’re not working on TCP but more likely on HTTP using a web api to expose your sync process, you will probably have to face some issues with timeout.

Note

Before increasing timeout, be sure you have already setup a snapshot for all your new clients.

By default, Timeout is fixed to 2 minutes.

To increase the overall timeout, you will have to work on both side:

• Your web server api project.

• Your client application.

Server side

There is no way to increase the Timeout period on your web api using code, with .Net Core.

The only solution is to provide a web.config, that you add manually to your project.

Note

More information here : increase-the-timeout-of-asp-net-core-application

Here is a web.config example where requestTimeout is fixed to 20 minutes:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
  <system.webServer>
    <handlers>
      <add name="aspNetCore" path="*" verb="*"
           modules="AspNetCoreModule" resourceType="Unspecified"/>
    </handlers>
    <aspNetCore requestTimeout="00:20:00"  processPath="%LAUNCHER_PATH%"
                arguments="%LAUNCHER_ARGS%" stdoutLogEnabled="false"
                stdoutLogFile=".\logs\stdout" forwardWindowsAuthToken="false"/>
  </system.webServer>
</configuration>

Client side

On the client side, the web orchestrator WebRemoteOrchestrator instance uses its own HttpClient instance unless you specify your own HttpClient instance.

So far, to increase the timeout, you can either:

• Provide your own HttpClient instance with the Timeout property correctly set:

var handler = new HttpClientHandler { AutomaticDecompression = DecompressionMethods.GZip };
var client = new HttpClient(handler) { Timeout = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(20) };
var clientProvider = new WebRemoteOrchestrator("http://my.syncapi.com:88/Sync", null, null, client);

• Increase the existing HttpClient instance, created by WebRemoteOrchestrator:

var clientProvider = new WebRemoteOrchestrator("http://my.syncapi.com:88/Sync");
clientProvider.HttpClient.Timeout = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(20);