[mochikit] Re: Timeout example? (for badly behaving servers...)

[Bob Ippolito]

On Feb 8, 2006, at 5:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Does anyone have an example of timing out an XMLHttpreques using
Mochikit?
I've got a server that just listens, but never responds and after like
5 seconds or so, I'd like my app to give up trying to get something
back from it.

something like this should work:

var cancelWithTimeout = function (deferred, timeout) {
        var canceller = callLater(timeout, function () {
                // cancel the deferred after timeout seconds
                deferred.cancel();
        });
        return deferred.addCallback(function (res) {
                // if the deferred fires successfully, cancel the timeout
                canceller.cancel();
                return res;
        });
};


Used like this:

var d = cancelWithTimeout(10.0, loadJSONDoc(...));


-bob