When sending HTTP requests to an API, I encountered the issue of slow response times and needed to adjust the timeout value. The API returns a JSON array of Dimension objects. Here is the initial POST request that was functioning correctly:
autodetect(configuration: IntegConfig): Observable<Dimension[]> {
return this.http.post<any>(this.setupAPIUrl + `autodetect`, configuration);
}
To address the slow response time, I attempted to add a timeout to the request. However, my efforts led to a compile time error:
Type 'ArrayBuffer' is missing the following properties from type 'Dimension[]': length, pop, push, concat, and 25 more.
It became clear that the http.post method had multiple overloads with different return types, making it challenging to simply set a timeout while maintaining the same return type. Some suggestions in similar questions did not resolve the issue, including setting the options parameter as type any or adjusting the post<T> return type declaration.
Trying different parameter configurations also did not yield the desired result:
const options = {
headers: new HttpHeaders(),
observe: 'events' as const,
params: new HttpParams(),
reportProgress: false,
responseType: 'json' as const,
withCredentials: false,
timeout: 200000
};
The question remains: how can a simple HTTP timeout be set on a POST request?