Request timeout in Spring boot

Question

I wish to set my Spring Boot server timeout, say to 15 seconds. To be clear: I wish that if my server fails to respond within 15 seconds it will return an error response (something like what happens in Heroku, only there it is 30 seconds). How can I do that?

My problem actually originates from the fact that this service is a gateway and it calls another service, which sometimes takes a long time to response, and I can't control that service's timeout. Since I'm using an SDK files to call that server, I can't control the outgoing calls. Is there a way I can globally set a timeout for all outgoing calls?

Thank you

Answer 1

You can wrap your library into a extra thread and then directly join on that thread with timeout. Example see http://www.journaldev.com/1024/java-thread-join-example-with-explanation