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# YUI Library Examples: Connection Manager: Connection Manager Transaction Timeout

# Connection Manager: Connection Manager Transaction Timeout

This example illustrates Connection Manager's built-in transaction timeout functionality.

Click the "Create Two Transactions" button below. Two requests will be made to a PHP script that is designed to respond slowly, waiting between 0 and 10 seconds to respond. If the response takes longer than 1.5 seconds, the request will automatically abort (resulting in a "transaction aborted" message).

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## Setting Transaction Timeouts with Connection Manager

The following code example provides a step-by-step approach to presetting a transaction timeout.

### Source file and dependencies

Load the Yahoo Global Object and Connection Manager source files:

<script src="yahoo.js"></script> <script src="event.js"></script> <script src="connection.js"></script>

### The Callback Object

The callback object includes a `timeout` property that allows you to specify the amount of time you're willing to wait for a transaction to complete before aborting. To cause a transaction to automatically timeout, the `timeout` property must be defined wih a value in millseconds. This example defines timeout with a value of 5000(milliseconds). If the transaction is not complete within 5000ms, it will be aborted.

var handleSuccess = function(o){ if(o.responseText !== undefined){ div.innerHTML = "Transaction id: " + o.tId; div.innerHTML += "HTTP status: " + o.status; div.innerHTML += "Server response: " + o.responseText; div.innerHTML += "Argument object: property foo = " + o.argument.foo + "and property bar = " + o.argument.bar; } } var handleFailure = function(o){ div.innerHTML += "<li>Transaction id: " + o.tId + "</li>"; div.innerHTML += "<li>HTTP status: " + o.status + "</li>"; div.innerHTML += "<li>Status code message: " + o.statusText + "</li>"; } var callback = { success:handleSuccess, failure: handleFailure, argument: { foo:"foo", bar:"bar" }, timeout: 1500 };

### Initiate the Transaction

Call `YAHOO.util.Connect.asyncRequest` to send the request to `sync.php`. The PHP script will return a string message after a random delay of 0 to 10 seconds if the transaction was not aborted. If the transaction was successfully aborted, the response object's status property will report `-1` and the `statusText` property will report "transaction aborted".

var sUrl = "php/sync.php"; var request = YAHOO.util.Connect.asyncRequest('GET', sUrl, callback);

## Configuration for This Example

You can load the necessary JavaScript and CSS for this example from Yahoo's servers. Click here to load the YUI Dependency Configurator with all of this example's dependencies preconfigured.

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### Connection Manager Examples:

- Connection Manager GET Transaction
- Connection Manager POST Transaction
- Connection Manager Transaction Timeout
- Retrieving a Yahoo! Weather RSS Feed
- Cross-Domain Transactions with Connection Manager
- Subscribing to Connection Manager Global Events
- Subscribing to Connection Manager's Custom Events via the Callback Object
- Connection Manager assisted image crop (included with examples for ImageCropper Control (beta))
- Dynamically Loading Node Data (included with examples for TreeView Control)
- Editor Data Post with Connection Manager (included with examples for Rich Text Editor)
- Simple Application (included with examples for Layout Manager)

### More Connection Manager Resources:

- User's Guide (external)
- API Documentation
- Cheat Sheet PDF (external)

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