How to set timeout?

[Endogen]

Versions

OS: macOS 10.13.1
Python: 3.6.3
krakenex: 2.0.0c2

What are you trying to achieve?

Get a response from Kraken

kraken = krakenex.API()
kraken.load_key("kraken.key")

res_add_order = kraken.query_private("AddOrder", req_data)

What do you expect to happen?

Request should wait till response is returned

What happens instead?

I get no response

[veox]

OT: How long have you tried to wait?..

For me, all queries return a response (or raise a requests exception) within 1 minute. Most queries that would interact with Kraken's trade execution engine are "resolved" within 10-20 seconds, but quite often go up to 30.

[Endogen]

Sorry, my bad. I get an requests error. I just didn't catch it.

requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 502 Server Error: Bad Gateway for url: https://api.kraken.com/0/private/AddOrder

Is it just me or isn't it possible right now to create an order at Kraken via API? Sorry for the mess, i do realize that this has nothing todo with my initial question...

[veox]

No problem!

ATM, Kraken is indeed a mess; 502s were fairly common in recent months, but there's ample 504s and 520s now.

[veox]

BTW, careful with 502s: PSA on /r/krakenex.

[veox]

Please don't close the issue, though: the topic question is still valid.

[TheSeven]

Tonight I had a situation where quite likely my internet connection was dropped while krakenex was waiting for a reply. That ended up waiting for that reply endlessly (hours), so adding a (reasonable) timeout would still be a good idea, even if this only occurs rarely.

[moppymopperson]

I sometimes have the same problem as @TheSeven. I run a script that queries the public endpoint for the current price at regular intervals, and occasionally I’ll get a response that never comes back. Currently I have to manually inspect and reset, but I’d really like to handle it with a timeout to just give up and move on.

[veox]

PR #77 has been merged - introducing a timeout arg to the query_{public,private} functions.

The value passed should be a number (int or float).

For now, there is no way to set a default timeout (for all queries and/or connection opening).