[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] (WFLY-1423) Provide configurable timeout for ExternalContextObjectFactory.createContext

[Stuart Douglas (JIRA)]

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Stuart Douglas commented on WFLY-1423:
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It is not really possible. You could perform the operation in a sperate thread and then 'time out' and interupt the other thread if it takes to long, but that is very yuck. This really belongs in the external context implementation.  
                
> Provide configurable timeout for ExternalContextObjectFactory.createContext
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>
>                 Key: WFLY-1423
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFLY-1423
>             Project: WildFly
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>          Components: Naming
>    Affects Versions: 8.0.0.Alpha1
>            Reporter: Jan Martiska
>            Assignee: Stuart Douglas
>
> An ExternalContextObjectFactory's createContext method might take a long time to complete, because usually it will communicate over the network. It would be useful to be able to cap the waiting time, and there should be a timeout enabled by default -- it might happen that the remote server will get stuck during the context creation and the external context will never be successfully created (or it will just take too much time). If a timeout occurs, createContext can for example return null, or throw an exception, not sure which is better.

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