Sounds like a pretty useful feature, actually. As far as I know, there's no way of doing this. Did you have any ideas how this would be implemented outside App Engine? Maybe we can cook something up.
I'd go ahead and file this as a feature request: http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/list On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 2:49 AM, phraktle <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to actually lower the timeout for a given request? In > some cases I would like to guarantee a quicker response time (eg. > subsecond) and bail out if it's not happening (eg. due to a temporary > slowness in the datastore). Of course, one could just check > currentTimeMillis from all over the place, but that's a sub-par > solution compared to just getting a DeadlineExceededException from any > call... > > It would be nice to have such capability on the QuotaService, eg. get/ > setDeadline (naturally, it would only allow setting to a lower value > than previously). > > btw. a related question... let's say I have a simple infinite loop in > the code... will GAE throw a DeadlineExceededException in this case? > or only from Google API calls? do we only get a > HardDeadlineExceededError instead? > > Regards, > Viktor > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine for Java" group. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-appengine-java%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en. > > > -- Ikai Lan Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine for Java" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en.
