How to set timeout in Refit library

Question

I am using Refit library in my Xamarin App, I want to set 10 seconds timeout for the request. Is there any way to do this in refit?

Interface:

interface IDevice
{
  [Get("/app/device/{id}")]
  Task<Device> GetDevice(string id, [Header("Authorization")] string authorization);
}

Invoking the API

var device = RestService.For<IDevice>("http://localhost");              
var dev = await device.GetDevice("15e2a691-06df-4741-b26e-87e1eecc6bd7", "Bearer OAUTH_TOKEN");

Answer 1

The accepted answer is the correct way to enforce a timeout for a single request, but if you want to have a single consistent timeout value for all requests, you can pass a preconfigured HttpClient with its Timeout property set:

var api = RestService.For<IDevice>(new HttpClient 
{
    BaseAddress = new Uri("http://localhost"),
    Timeout = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10)
});

Here is an example project.

Answer 2

I finally found a way of setting the timeout for a request in Refit. I used CancelationToken. Here is the modified code after adding CancelationToken

Interface:

interface IDevice
{
  [Get("/app/device/{id}")]
  Task<Device> GetDevice(string id, [Header("Authorization")] string authorization, CancellationToken cancellationToken);
}

Invoking the API:

var device = RestService.For<IDevice>("http://localhost");    
CancellationTokenSource tokenSource = new CancellationTokenSource();
tokenSource.CancelAfter(10000); // 10000 ms
CancellationToken token = tokenSource.Token;          
var dev = await device.GetDevice("15e2a691-06df-4741-b26e-87e1eecc6bd7", "Bearer OAUTH_TOKEN", token);

It works properly for me. I don't know whether it is the proper way or not. If it is a wrong, kindly suggest the correct way.