How to set the connection and read timeout with Jersey 2.x?

Question

In jersey 1 we had a function setConnectTimeout in the class com.sun.jersey.api.client.Client.

In jersey 2 the javax.ws.rs.client.Client class is used where this function is missing.

How to set connection timeout and read timeout in jersey 2.x?

Answer 1

The code below works for me in Jersey 2.3.1 (inspiration found here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/19541931/1617124)

public static void main(String[] args) {
    Client client = ClientBuilder.newClient();

    client.property(ClientProperties.CONNECT_TIMEOUT, 1000);
    client.property(ClientProperties.READ_TIMEOUT,    1000);

    WebTarget target = client.target("http://1.2.3.4:8080");

    try {
        String responseMsg = target.path("application.wadl").request().get(String.class);
        System.out.println("responseMsg: " + responseMsg);
    } catch (ProcessingException pe) {
        pe.printStackTrace();
    }
}