Sails.js server request timeout - sails.js

Question

I am using sails.js v0.10.5.
I have long processing controller action which takes more than 2 minutes to complete which causes the sails server to timeout. How can I overwrite this timeout duration and set it to my value say 10 minutes.Please specify in which file and what changes I need to make to increase the sails server timeout.

Answer 1

You can find which action delay the starting process
sails --verbose lift
most of the time, ORM causes this kind of issue.
UPDATE
i think the timeout is provided by Express, if you want to modify it, you can use connect-time
1.install
$ npm install connect-timeout --save
2.add middleware to http.js
var timeout = require('connect-timeout');
......
order: [ 'timeout' ....]

Answer 2

My answer is pretty similar to the provided by Ryan, but I'll expand the example a bit more for clarity. Also I don't see the need for the dependency installation there.
TL;DR Add a custom middleware that amends req to increase the timeout
In /config/http.js
order: [
'startRequestTimer',
'cookieParser',
'session',
'myRequestLogger',
'contentTypeCheck',
'extendTimeout', // <--- The order is somewhat important, added it before the body is parsed without issue
'bodyParser',
'handleBodyParserError',
'compress',
'methodOverride',
'poweredBy',
'$custom',
'router',
'www',
'favicon',
'404',
'500'
],
extendTimeout: function(req, res, next) {
req.setTimeout(300 * 1000); // Increase the request timeout to 5 minutes
return next();
},
// Other custom middleware
Can also set req.setTimeout(0) if you don't want any timeout at all, but could be a bit risky.
This will set the timeout for all routes keep in mind. This can be overridden on a per route basis by simply setting req.setTimeout(<some timeout>) as the first line in the controller handling the route

Answer 3

yjimk, thanks for your idea... it wasn't working for me first, but I found a solution.
Problem was in extendTimeout function, here is the fixed version:
extendTimeout: (function () {
console.log('Initializing `extendTimeout`...');
return function (req, res, next) {
sails.log.info('extendTimeout to 1h');
req.setTimeout(3600000);
return next();
};
})(),