Hi everyone,
Does anyone know how long Bubble will wait for a response for an API? I have a call that sometimes takes the server up to a minute to respond. Sometimes it goes through, sometimes it does not so I am curious if anyone knows how long it takes before Bubble decides to give up waiting… And is there a way to change that setting?
Thanks in advance.
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I have a backend api call that may take upto 2 minutes to complete and I need the response. Is there a timeout setting I can update?
Hmm. If it’s under your control, What about sending the response back via a webhook?
What takes two minutes? That’s a long time
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I have control over the API so I can modify the response. I’m not familiar with webhooks, how could that solve my problem?
I guess a better question is, is it timing out for you?
Wiith a webhook, your API could simply respond that “yes, i’ve got your request” and then send back data once the run is complete. it would send it to a backend API workflow to intake the data, and process the results accordingly. hence, you don’t need to even worry about longterm connections.
I once asked the support by email, and they told me it’s 60s. Unfortunatly, you can’t modify this setting
Is it possible to show the webhook response in a field in the front end?
Is it possible to trigger an event so that when a new row is entered into the DB (would be from the webhook) , and a column in the row has a certain value, then update a field in the UI?
Sure thing. The UI should always show up to date data from the DB.
Check this out 
As of June 2024, it seems like they changed it to 30 secs.
30 sec is because the AWS service bubble is using and this is hardcoded. RN, I am facing the same issue and working on a workaround
is there any workaround you have figured out since i am getting an error where the api connector is firing the request more than once and i think that is because it takes time for my external server to respond maybe 3 - 4 minutes
