Extend time-out duration

[ustk]

@Christoph-Hart I have a long task with variable duration (server request). So sometimes I get an Execution timed-out error.

How can I deal with it?
Is it possible to extend the duration? (I've seen the extendTimeOutAPI is only for compile-time and has no influence on the compiled plugin)
Does the error have an impact on the compiled plugin?

[ustk]

@Christoph-Hart Is there a way to make server request asynchronous?

[Christoph Hart]

You could give it a timer that checks every 500ms, but how do you do a server request?

[ustk]

@Christoph-Hart I used the juce url input stream
It's not clear to me where/how to implement this timer...

[Christoph Hart]

Ah, so you've added a Scripting API call for that? In this case you will need to break the call up into something that calls the server and a scripting API call that checks the response, something like this:

const var asyncCheck = Engine.createTimerObject();

asyncCheck.setTimerCallback(function()
{
    if(Server.gotSomeResponse())
    {
        // Do something
        this.stopTimer();
    }
});

Server.call("http://someaddress.");

asyncCallback.startTimer(500);

A more cleaner approach would be:

function serverDoneCallback(obj)
{
    Console.print(obj.status); // the status code (200 for OK)
    Console.print(obj.response); // the data 
};

Server.callWithCallback("http://myaddress.com", serverDoneCallback);

But that requires some non-trivial wrapping on the C++ side...

[ustk]

@Christoph-Hart Oh great I see! At least for the first one, the second might be too high level for me at the moment :)
Currently, I have one function that does the request and waits for the answer at once... Will try to split that...

[gorangrooves]

@ustk What are you trying to achieve?