[LRUG] Making Rails time out

[Rob Anderson]

Yes, this would be a good way of implementing the test if I were writing the client. But I'm actually providing the service.

This probably falls into the class of tests which it is the client's responsibility to implement / simulate.  But in our particular case it would be handy to have the server be able to do this.


On 19 Apr 2013, at 15:22, George Drummond <drummond at rentify.com> wrote:

> If you are testing this in your test suite then use WebMock to mock a timeout
> 
> https://github.com/bblimke/webmock/issues/16
> 
> 
> On 19 Apr 2013, at 15:07, Rob Anderson <rob.anderson at paymentcardsolutions.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Hello LRUG
>> 
>> I have a weird requirement and I can't seem to figure out how to fulfill it using Rails.
>> 
>> We provide a number of web services to third parties.  As part of their testing and accreditation with us they need to execute a variety of test cases.
>> 
>> Some of the key test conditions involve making sure that exceptions are correctly handled.  So if for example they call one of our services and we return a 500 system exception, they handle this gracefully. 
>> 
>> One of the test cases we have come up with is what happens if our service just fails to respond at all - eg we accept the connection and then leave them hanging waiting for a response.  This should raise a client timeout and they should handle it appropriately.
>> 
>> But it s not at all clear how to achieve this in our test system.  I could put in some monster sleep command, but I don't really want to block the process - ideally I just want to tell ActionController: forget it, your work is done.
>> 
>> I suspect maybe this is very difficult / impossible because Apache / Passenger would also need to be told to stand down, but I don't know.  Can't find anything on Google either.
>> 
>> Perhaps this is just an insane test case - but I know I have seen plenty of instances of this happening in the real world when we call other people's web services, so it would be good to be able to simulate it.
>> 
>> Any thoughts gratefully received
>> 
>> Rob
>> 
>> 
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