Hi,
I am still evaluating this project, and I am having a hard time figuring out hard_timeouts (
)
Basically, the backend Rest API I have to work with has resources where operations are usually quick, and others which may take some time (into the minutes). I need to adapt the timeouts to those.
I figured out that jsvm_timeout in tyk.conf can be used to globally set the timeout, and I have successfully used it. But I can not get the hard_timeouts working.
Neither setting a jsvm_timeout to a low value and hard_timeouts.timeout to a high value, nor setting a jsvm_timeout to a high value and hard_timeouts.timeout to a low value will do anything, I will always get the timeout at the global jsvm_timeout time.
Which one of those possibilities is the expected/correct configuration?
I am not sure if I am doing it correctly, so I am going to paste a part of my API .json file. Note that I am trying to use Enforced Timeouts with Virtual Endpoints in JSVM.
"versions": {
"Default": {
"name": "Default",
"use_extended_paths": true,
"extended_paths": {
"virtual": [
{
"response_function_name": "sessionhandler",
"function_source_type": "file",
"function_source_uri": "middleware/sessionhandler.js",
"path": "api",
"method": "GET",
"use_session": false
}
],
"hard_timeouts": [
{
"path": "api",
"method": "GET",
"timeout": 3
}
]
}
}
}
Does anyone have a hint what else to try or how it is supposed to be used? Unfortunately the documentation and examples do not show how to use it.
And an additional, related question: Is it possible to catch the timeout, or catch a timeout to a backend REST API, and send a custom error back to the user/frontend? It looks like I can not try/catch the global JSVM timeout.
Thank you very much 
PS: Maybe it is important:
"proxy": {
"listen_path": "/resttest/",
"strip_listen_path": true
},
Tyk virtual endpoints are coming in at /resttest/api/…