How to set the connection and read timeout with Jersey 2.x?

Question

In jersey 1 we had a function setConnectTimeout in the class com.sun.jersey.api.client.Client.

In jersey 2 the javax.ws.rs.client.Client class is used where this function is missing.

How to set connection timeout and read timeout in jersey 2.x?

Answer 1

The code below works for me in Jersey 2.3.1 (inspiration found here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/19541931/1617124)

public static void main(String[] args) {     Client client = ClientBuilder.newClient();      client.property(ClientProperties.CONNECT_TIMEOUT, 1000);     client.property(ClientProperties.READ_TIMEOUT,    1000);      WebTarget target = client.target("http://1.2.3.4:8080");      try {         String responseMsg = target.path("application.wadl").request().get(String.class);         System.out.println("responseMsg: " + responseMsg);     } catch (ProcessingException pe) {         pe.printStackTrace();     } } 

Answer 2

You may also specify a timeout per request :

public static void main(String[] args) {     Client client = ClientBuilder.newClient();     WebTarget target = client.target("http://1.2.3.4:8080");      // default timeout value for all requests     client.property(ClientProperties.CONNECT_TIMEOUT, 1000);     client.property(ClientProperties.READ_TIMEOUT,    1000);      try {         Invocation.Builder request = target.request();          // overriden timeout value for this request         request.property(ClientProperties.CONNECT_TIMEOUT, 500);         request.property(ClientProperties.READ_TIMEOUT, 500);          String responseMsg = request.get(String.class);         System.out.println("responseMsg: " + responseMsg);     } catch (ProcessingException pe) {         pe.printStackTrace();     } }