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RxJS timeout without error when no return value is requested

I am making web api calls which don't return values and only their HTTP status code is of interest to me. But i want those calls to timeout after a specified time span.

Because i missed reading the doc, i used the timeout-operator on the web-call-observable like so:

this.someProvider.requestStatus(someValue)
    .pipe(timeout(this.timeoutMilliseconds))
    .subscribe(() => console.log("Success"),...)

The thing is, that i receive the successfull webcall within the subscriber function, but even after the timeout time span the call still fails, because the source observable did not return a value - i think.

Is there a way to do this with the rxjs operators when i don't get the HTTPResponse back and only the body - if any?

Solution

  • timeout() will throw an error if the source Observable doesn't emit for a period of time.

    But if the source completes then timeout() will stop. So it looks like your source Observable this.someProvider.requestStatus() doesn't complete.