mgencur commented on a change in pull request #3951: Docs fixes for action invocations URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk/pull/3951#discussion_r208948137
########## File path: docs/actions.md ########## @@ -216,10 +216,17 @@ ok: invoked /whisk.system/samples/greeting with id 5975c24de0114ef2b5c24de0118ef A blocking invocation request will _wait_ for the activation result to be available. The wait period is the lesser of 60 seconds or the action's configured [time limit](reference.md#per-action-timeout-ms-default-60s). -The result of the activation is returned if it is available within the wait period. + +The result of the activation is returned if it is available within the blocking wait period (this wait period is by default 60 seconds as well). Otherwise, the activation continues processing in the system and an activation ID is returned so that one may check for the result later, as with non-blocking requests (see [here](#watching-action-output) for tips on monitoring activations). +If execution of the action exceeds the action's configured time limit within the blocking wait period Review comment: Unless the configured time limit is longer than 60 seconds and the blocking wait time is the default. In this case it returns 202 as you said previously? Curious... ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org With regards, Apache Git Services
