Cloud Functions timeout, even though I've set the timeout settings to 900.

Hi,

I have a cloud function in the Appwrite cloud project. I noticed that my users receive an error response when their requests exceed 30 seconds.

However, I created a dummy cloud function to investigate with simple code that waits 40 seconds and returns dummy text. It returns an error after 30 seconds, even though I've set the timeout value to 900 seconds.

The dummy function:

Future<dynamic> main(final context) async {
  await Future.delayed(Duration(seconds: 40));
  return context.res.send('Hello, World!');
}

The error that I received in response:

Error 400
Internal error: Operation timed out after 30001 milliseconds with 0 bytes received

Type
general_argument_invalid

I'm calling the function using a RESTful API, and I'm using the cloud version of Appwrite. Also, I've set the timeout to 900 in the function's settings.

Just to verify, in Functions -> function -> settings -> timeout it says 900? I manually deploy most my functions and if you haven't updated the appwrite.json file when deploying it sets the timeout value back to the default.

Synchronous executions have a hard timeout of 30s

Are there any solutions to ensure that the function completes its execution within the timeout period?

Yes, I'm updating the timeout to 900 in the function settings whenever I make a new deployment

for slower functions, you should be executing them asynchronously

@VincentGe have we documented this yet?

Is this cloud specific? First time hearing about this

nope, not cloud specific