HTTPService Timeout

[k_crider]

How do you properly handle HTTPService calls that never return with  Result or Error? I have one that repeatedly sits and sits, never coming back from the server.

If I set timeout, that's fine, but then how to gracefully tell the user the call has been timed out?

[Michael_Borbor]

If you set requestTimeout then your request will raise a fault when it times out so you can just add an event listener to the httpservice faultevent and could display an Alert with some info for the user.

[k_crider]

Is there somethign special I have to do to get the fault to raise...? Because I have a fault event defined for my service, and I set the timeout seconds, but nothing happens...???

[Michael_Borbor]

Could you post how do you declare your httpservice? and how do you add the service event listener? and the event listeners as well?

[k_crider]

Sure:

private

function sendID1(id:String):void

{

var params:Object = new

Object();

params.p_id=id;

httpSvcGetName1.send(params);

}

private function svcGetName1Result(evt:ResultEvent):void

{

var

resultObj:Object = evt.result;

/* Assign the values... */

//Alert.show(resultObj.toString());

lblName1.text=resultObj.toString();

}

public function svcFault1(faultEvent:FaultEvent):void

{

var

faultstring:String = faultEvent.fault.rootCause.toString();

Alert.show(faultstring,'Fault');

MXML:

<mx:HTTPService

id="

httpSvcGetName1

"

url="

http://myservice.P_GET_FULLNAME

"

showBusyCursor="

true

"

requestTimeout="

10"

resultFormat="

text

"

fault="svcFault1(event)"

result="svcGetName1Result(event)"

/>

[Michael_Borbor]

Your code looks ok, have you tried debugging your app and setting breakpoints in the result and fault handlers to see if the response hit one of these?

[k_crider]

Well, I did put "alerts" in the Fault handler, and it never gets called...the hourglass (clock) comes up for 10 seconds (or whatever I set the timeout to), then just simply goes away...

[k_crider]

This issue still plagues me...

Only occasionaly, but it still happens that my service never responds, and just sits.

Any suggestions...

BUMP!