Python: setting service wide client timeout

[Amit Saha]

Hi all,

I can set call specific timeout as follows:

response = stub.CreateUser(

            users_messages.CreateUserRequest(username='tom'),

            metadata=metadata,

            timeout=30,

 )

Is it possible to set timeout when creating the stub (so that i don't have to set the timeout per call)? I could create a wrapper to do this automatically, something like this i guess:

def wrapped_client(stub, method, data, metadata):

    # not sure if this actually works..more of an idea

    getattr(stub, method)(data, metadata=metadata,timeout=30)

and then always use this wrapper.

Thanks,

Amit.

[Evan Jones]

I think this is exactly what Service Configs are supposed to solve, but I haven't investigate them at all: https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/doc/service_config.md

Hope that helps,

Evan

[Nathaniel Manista]

This is not possible today with gRPC Python. It's likely coming in the future, either with interceptors support or some other mechanism.

-Nathaniel

[Amit Saha]

Thanks.