Timeout configuration for spring webservices with RestTemplate

Snicolas answer almost worked for me, only had to change the cast Class:

RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate(); ((SimpleClientHttpRequestFactory)restTemplate.getRequestFactory()).setReadTimeout(1000*30); 

Also you can set the connect timeOut:

((SimpleClientHttpRequestFactory)restTemplate.getRequestFactory()).setConnectTimeout(1000*30); 

This worked for me

( (HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory) getRestTemplate().getRequestFactory() ).setReadTimeout( 120 * 1000 ); 

I used it in the android version of spring android rest template.

Default value is 60 * 1000

I had the same problem and first tried to fix it by modifying the Spring configuration but my attempts were all unsucessfull.

Finally, I have partially fixed it by setting the folowing JVM system properties : sun.net.client.defaultConnectTimeout

sun.net.client.defaultReadTimeout

(follow that link for more details about them : http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/guide/net/properties.html )

First, i inject my custom values for "Connect timeout" and "Read timeout" stored in a property file, by using an "home made" configuration bean :

 <bean id="rmProperties" class="com.mydomain.myapp.myConfigBean" scope="singleton"> ... <property name="httpRequestConnectTimeout" value="${httpRequestConnectTimeout}" /> <property name="httpRequestReadTimeout" value="${httpRequestReadTimeout}" /> ... </bean> 

Then, i set the the JVM system properties by using the System.setProperty(... ) method just like this :

 System.setProperty(propName, value); 

I have only one trouble left : the value set in sun.net.client.defaultConnectTimeout doesn't seem to be taken in account. After having made some more tests, i've realized that it happens when i try to reach my target hosts through a proxy server (Squid in my case).

However ,there is an inconvenient to use that setting method : the timeout settings will be used for all the further requests

Regards

I had the same needing of being able to set timeout for webservice consumption, and I just solve it with an other spring conf.

First with the configuration bellow, I had the same problem as @jsebFrank (java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/httpclient/HttpMethodBase)

 <bean id="restTemplate" class="org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate"> <constructor-arg> <bean class="org.springframework.http.client.CommonsClientHttpRequestFactory"> <property name="connectTimeout" value="10000" /> <property name="readTimeout" value="10000" /> </bean> </constructor-arg> </bean> 

But as Spring support explain here (in section 16.5 Timeout Handling), you can use the SimpleClientHttpRequestFactory request factory (which is the default one for Spring restTemplate).

Using it, I don't have problem anymore:

 <bean id="restTemplate" class="org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate"> <constructor-arg> <bean class="org.springframework.http.client.SimpleClientHttpRequestFactory"> <property name="connectTimeout" value="10000" /> <property name="readTimeout" value="10000" /> </bean> </constructor-arg> </bean>