Android volley Timeout Exception when using RequestFuture.get()

Question

In my Fragment, i am trying to use TMDB\'s open movie DB to get details about \"Now Playing\" Movies.

If i use RequestFuture.get(time, TimeUnit) method to execute this v

Answer 1

Sad that no-one could help answer this question but i managed to solve this issue like below:

The timeout will happen to the RequestFuture.get() if it is on the same thread as the UI thread. I have changed the mechanism of the request so that the request is done on a separate Asynch thread(not UI thread) and the response is also received on a separate thread from the request like below:

private void StepA() {
        Log.d("RT", "StepA initiated");
        final CountDownLatch latchA = new CountDownLatch(1);

        Thread t = new Thread(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                Log.d("RT", "Thread t Begins");
                ThreadA threadA = new ThreadA();
                try {
                    JSONObject jsonObject = threadA.execute().get(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
                    parseA(jsonObject);
                    latchA.countDown();
                    Log.d("RT", "Thread t Ends");
                } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                } catch (ExecutionException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                } catch (TimeoutException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
            }
        });
        t.start();
        try {
            latchA.await();
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        Log.d("RT", "StepA END");
    }

Below is the Asynch task code for the request:

protected class ThreadA extends AsyncTask {
    final String url = mBuilder.getURL("box");

    public ThreadA() {
    }

    @Override
    protected JSONObject doInBackground(Void... params) {
        final RequestFuture future = RequestFuture.newFuture();
        JsonObjectRequest request = new JsonObjectRequest(Request.Method.GET, url, (String) null, future, future);
        requestQueue.add(request);
        try {
            return future.get(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (ExecutionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (TimeoutException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return null;
    }
}

I've added countdown latches cause they are awesome and also cause i have few more requests like this in my program that depend on this snippet's response. Hence they help run the program more synchronously.