set timeout in httprequest android

Question

I am using the following code to get data from the server with http request.

HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
    String URL = urlGenerator();

    StringBuilder url = new StringBuilder(URL); 
    HttpGet get = new HttpGet(url.toString());

    HttpResponse response = client.execute(get);
    int status = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();

    if(status == 200){
            ...
            }

Its working fine.But in case if the phone is connected to wifi or gprs 3g but internet is not working or internet connection is not there, i want to use the timeout feature in the above code.

say after 3 sec i want to show timeout please try again.. how do i do that. in case of time out i want to show a text in the textviw connection timeout .. how do i do that please help

Answer 1

You can do it as follows:

try{     
    HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(url);
    HttpParams httpParameters = new BasicHttpParams();
    // Set the timeout in milliseconds until a connection is established.
    // The default value is zero, that means the timeout is not used. 
    int timeoutConnection = 4000;
    HttpConnectionParams.setConnectionTimeout(httpParameters, timeoutConnection);
    // Set the default socket timeout (SO_TIMEOUT) 
    // in milliseconds which is the timeout for waiting for data.
    int timeoutSocket = 6000;
    HttpConnectionParams.setSoTimeout(httpParameters, timeoutSocket);

    DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient(httpParameters);
    HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(httpGet);
} catch (ConnectTimeoutException e) {
        //Here Connection TimeOut excepion    
      Toast.makeText(xyz.this, "Your connection timedout", 10000).show();
   }

Answer 2

use this code to accomplish your task

HttpParams httpParameters = new BasicHttpParams();
HttpConnectionParams.setConnectionTimeout(httpParameters, 30000);
HttpConnectionParams.setSoTimeout(httpParameters, 30000);