I really like using the request-level api for Akka Http Client but I need to set timeouts per request. I understand there are settings for idle timeout and connection timeout but not for request timeout. There’s even an issue in Akka Http open for this (https://github.com/akka/akka-http/issues/622) but it has no resolution (3+ years). Wondering if my only option is to use the connection-level api (which I don’t want)
Indeed, we didn’t get to fixing that properly yet.
As a poor-man’s workaround until we fix that issue you could use a simple request timeout, though the drawback would be that requests that time out in the queue will still be executed even if the response will be discarded afterwards.
Thank you @jrudolph for your reply. Would you mind expanding (if possible with a simple example) on your solution? I am not aware of any setting at the request-level that allows you to set a timeout.
@juanavelez just curious if you explored https://github.com/akka/akka-http/blob/acbf077fcf929e1de79ef1022a8d4d7f3a4798c2/akka-http-core/src/main/resources/reference.conf#L50?
Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately that particular property is for Servers not clients.
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Sorry missed coming back to that issue.
You might be able to use something like
Future.firstCompletedOf(Seq(
akka.pattern.after(timeout, scheduler)(Future.failed(timedOutException)),
requestFuture
)