How to implement a “function timeout” in Javascript - not just the 'setTimeout'

Question

How to implement a timeout in Javascript, not the window.timeout but something like session timeout or socket timeout - basically - a

Answer 1

I realize this is an old question/thread but perhaps this will be helpful to others.

Here's a generic callWithTimeout that you can await:

export function callWithTimeout(func, timeout) {
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    const timer = setTimeout(() => reject(new Error("timeout")), timeout)
    func().then(
      response => resolve(response),
      err => reject(new Error(err))
    ).finally(() => clearTimeout(timer))
  })
}

Tests/examples:

export function sleep(ms) {
  return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms))
}

const func1 = async () => {
  // test: func completes in time
  await sleep(100)
}

const func2 = async () => {
  // test: func does not complete in time
  await sleep(300)
}

const func3 = async () => {
  // test: func throws exception before timeout
  await sleep(100)
  throw new Error("exception in func")
}

const func4 = async () => {
  // test: func would have thrown exception but timeout occurred first
  await sleep(300)
  throw new Error("exception in func")
}

Call with:

try {
  await callWithTimeout(func, 200)
  console.log("finished in time")
}
catch (err) {
  console.log(err.message)  // can be "timeout" or exception thrown by `func`
}