I'm afraid you have to implement the timeout mechanism yourself. I don't aware camel provides this feature out of box.
BTW, I think the solution2 that you have is a good one. -- Willem Jiang Red Hat, Inc. FuseSource is now part of Red Hat Web: http://www.fusesource.com | http://www.redhat.com Blog: http://willemjiang.blogspot.com (http://willemjiang.blogspot.com/) (English) http://jnn.iteye.com (http://jnn.javaeye.com/) (Chinese) Twitter: willemjiang Weibo: 姜宁willem On Tuesday, May 14, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Chinababu Illa wrote: > Thanks Willem. > > A bit more details on the problem. > > There are 3 applications involved in this issue. FrontEnd, Link and Host. > Link sits between FrontEnd and Host. When FrontEnd sends a request (http > post) to Link it in turn sends a request to Host and also creates two > streams one to read from Host and other one to send the same data to > FrontEnd. Due to slow streaming from Host, the FrontEnd to download the file > is taking longer time. And we cannot afford user waiting for that longer. > So, want to terminate downloading after certain period of time. > > Please find details below for your points. > > *Are you using FTP to download the file?* > - /No./ > > *I'm not sure how the BufferedInputStream is involved. * > - /FrontEnd reads response as Stream (InputStream) is how > BufferedInputStream involved here. > We are wrapping InputStream with BufferedInputStream./ > > *If the file is downloaded, the BufferedInputStream will never time out.* > - /Consider a case where file is still downloading and read never gets > timedout as it is getting data (a less data) for every read/ > > *If the BufferedInputStream has the timeout mechanism, I don't think you > need to check if the File is download.* > - /BufferedInputStream has the timeout mechanism but it will never timeout > as it gets data within timeout period./ > > > I have already got two solutions with me. > > 1) Implementing timeout manually (not a good idea, not elegant solution) > 2) Create a message listener send a message to start downloading, send a > message to terminate downloading after certain time. > 3) Looking if Camel can solve this by auto imposing timeout. > > So, please let me know if Camel has a solution for this kind of problems. If > so, point me what to look into. > > Thanks, > Chinna > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/Streaming-a-PDF-from-remote-machine-tp5732401p5732474.html > Sent from the Camel - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com > (http://Nabble.com).
