Extending server call timeout limit

[jslee524]

I’m using business plan and encountered “TimeoutError: Server code took too long”
(on anvil cloud and also on open source anvil-runtime)

Is there any possible way to extend time out period or make it no limitation?

[jshaffstall]

On the open source runtime, see here: Anvil app server - modify 30 second timeout - #7 by jshaffstall

On the cloud, that’d be an Anvil support question.

[p.colbert]

@jshaffstall

On the cloud, that’d be an Anvil support question.

Or perhaps a Background Task?

[jslee524]

Thank you for your reply, and it works well with anvil app server on my private cloud.
Unless there is another answer for anvil cloud, I would try background task.

[jslee524]

Thank you. I will try background task for anvil cloud.

[ianb]

+1 for background tasks, I just started using them after this question was asked:

How to get media generated from background task to the client side

Let me start by saying I have not used background tasks, so I read the documentation and I think you just need to layer one more step by creating a callable function that returns a task object that is created by running your decorated ‘@anvil.server.background_task’ function. The result of this background task function should return the media object you want. When task.is_completed() becomes True, the value of task.get_return_value() will be the media object.

… and now I think they are the bees knees.