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Set timeout on org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils.copyURLToFile?

I have some code that copies using httpCore util copyURLtoFile() but I can't seem to find anything about timeouts in the documentation like I was able to with httpClient. The file it's pulling shouldn't pull out, but depending on that is.... interesting.

    URL pjmUrl = new URL("myFile");
    File projLoad = new File("projLoad.txt");
    org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils.copyURLToFile(pjmUrl, projLoad);

If the third line should timeout, the program has no way to throw an error based on runtime or to check for threadInterrupted()

Solution

  • You must be looking at old javadocs. In the current release (2.4) here is an overload of the copyURLToFile method that has two timeout parameters:

      public static void copyURLToFile(URL source,
                             File destination,
                             int connectionTimeout,
                             int readTimeout)
                      throws IOException

    As the javadoc explains, the time unit is milliseconds.

    Reference: https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-io/javadocs/api-2.4/org/apache/commons/io/FileUtils.html