Set timeout for xmlrpclib.ServerProxy

Question

I am using xmlrpclib.ServerProxy to make RPC calls to a remote server. If there is not a network connection to the server it takes the default 10 seconds to return a socket.

Answer 1

The following example works with Python 2.7.4.

import xmlrpclib
from xmlrpclib import *
import httplib

def Server(url, *args, **kwargs):
    t = TimeoutTransport(kwargs.get('timeout', 20))
    if 'timeout' in kwargs:
       del kwargs['timeout']
    kwargs['transport'] = t
    server = xmlrpclib.Server(url, *args, **kwargs)
    return server

TimeoutServerProxy = Server

class TimeoutTransport(xmlrpclib.Transport):

    def __init__(self, timeout, use_datetime=0):
        self.timeout = timeout
        return xmlrpclib.Transport.__init__(self, use_datetime)

    def make_connection(self, host):
        conn = xmlrpclib.Transport.make_connection(self, host)
        conn.timeout = self.timeout
        return connrpclib.Server(url, *args, **kwargs)