Fixes gh-391 timeout handling documentation (#421)

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Nikolas Charalambidis
2020-11-02 14:10:58 +01:00
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@@ -274,6 +274,42 @@ public FeignClientConfigurer feignClientConfigurer() {
}
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[[timeout-handling]]
=== Timeout Handling
We can configure timeouts on both the default and the named client. OpenFeign works with two timeout parameters:
- `connectTimeout` prevents blocking the caller due to the long server processing time.
- `readTimeout` is applied from the time of connection establishment and is triggered when returning the response takes too long.
NOTE: In case the server is not running or available a packet results in _connection refused_. The communication ends either with an error message or in a fallback. This can happen _before_ the `connectTimeout` if it is set very low. The time taken to perform a lookup and to receive such a packet causes a significant part of this delay. It is subject to change based on the remote host that involves a DNS lookup.
When Hystrix <<spring-cloud-openfeign#spring-cloud-feign-hystrix,is enabled>>, its timeout configuration link:https://github.com/Netflix/Hystrix/wiki/Configuration#execution.isolation.thread.timeoutInMilliseconds[defaults] to 1000 milliseconds. Hence, it might occur before the client timeout that we configured earlier. Increasing this timeout prevents it from happening.
[source,yaml]
----
feign:
client:
config:
default:
connectTimeout: 5000
readTimeout: 5000
hystrix:
enabled: true
hystrix:
command:
default:
execution:
timeout:
enabled: true
isolation:
thread:
timeoutInMilliseconds: 60000
----
NOTE: When the Hystrix timeout is enabled and its timeout is set longer than that of a feign client, `HystrixTimeoutException` wraps a feign exception. Otherwise, the only difference is the cause of the exception. The purpose of `HystrixTimeoutException` is to wrap any runtime exception that occurs first and throw an instance of itself.
=== Creating Feign Clients Manually
In some cases it might be necessary to customize your Feign Clients in a way that is not