adding timeout to #wait
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Key: WTR-452
URL: http://jira.openqa.org/browse/WTR-452
Project: Watir
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Wait
Affects Versions: 1.6.5
Environment: all envs
Reporter: Jarmo Pertman
Currently it is possible that Watir will block forever in it's #wait method
under some circumstances. There are questions once in a while in the group also
about the timeout of Watir.
Unfortunately currently there is no timeout!
I have a proposal to add a timeout. And make it hardcoded - let's say 5
minutes. Why hardcoded? Because i think that if your page is unable to load in
5 minutes then your page is broken and should be fixed/changed anyway. This
would be a small indicator to the developers and testers that they shouldn't
waste so much time of their lives for waiting some bad application to render a
page.
Charley proposed to create an issue and let people to vote (not downvote) it!
So, what do you guys think about making Watir a little as an Opinionated
Software as Rails tries to be?
(PS, if your page loads more than 5 minutes and you cannot get yourself
together to fix it or tell your developers to fix it and you really need to
have longer timeouts, then you can always monkey-patch #wait. We're talking
about Ruby where everything is possible, remember?)
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