Re: area=AreaAdapter(request) force time out

• To: "Campbell, Garrett" <Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: area=AreaAdapter(request) force time out
• From: Bill Hibbard <hibbard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 09:15:55 -0600

Hi Garrett,

> I am reading some mcidas data files directly from a local network disk.
> I use the following in python:
> 
> area=AreaAdapter(request)
> 
> about 10% of the time the hangs up, probably because my local network is
> busy.
> The problem is that it hangs forever.
> 
> Is there a way to put a timer on this so that it will time out after a
> few seconds?
> So that I can try again.

Put the call that hangs inside its own Thread. Have the
Thread do a notify() on an object. Your main line code can
do a wait(timeout_in_ms) on the object, and if area is
still == null, start another Thread to construct another
AreaAdater to retry the read.

Good luck,
Bill
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