Question

Is there anyway for a SoapClient Request to time out and throw an exception. As of now, I get PHP Server response timeout, in my case 60 seconds. Basically what I want is, if there isn’t any reply from the Web Service within certain time, an exception would be thrown and I could catch it. The 60 seconds warning is not what I want.

Answer 1

Have a look at

• Timing Out PHP Soap Calls by Robert; 21 Oct 2009

if you are comfortable and your environment allows you to extend classes.

It basically extends the SoapClient class, replaces the HTTP transport with curl which can handle the timeouts:

class SoapClientTimeout extends SoapClient
{
    private $timeout;

    public function __setTimeout($timeout)
    {
        if (!is_int($timeout) && !is_null($timeout))
        {
            throw new Exception("Invalid timeout value");
        }

        $this->timeout = $timeout;
    }

    public function __doRequest($request, $location, $action, $version, $one_way = FALSE)
    {
        if (!$this->timeout)
        {
            // Call via parent because we require no timeout
            $response = parent::__doRequest($request, $location, $action, $version, $one_way);
        }
        else
        {
            // Call via Curl and use the timeout
            $curl = curl_init($location);

            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, FALSE);
            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, TRUE);
            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $request);
            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, FALSE);
            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("Content-Type: text/xml"));
            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $this->timeout);

            $response = curl_exec($curl);

            if (curl_errno($curl))
            {
                throw new Exception(curl_error($curl));
            }

            curl_close($curl);
        }

        // Return?
        if (!$one_way)
        {
            return ($response);
        }
    }
}