Apply timeout control around Java operation

Question

I\'m using a third party Java library to interact with a REST API. The REST API can sometimes take a long time to respond, eventually resulting in a java.net.ConnectExcept

Answer 1

    static final int NUM_TRIES =4;
    int tried =0;
    boolean result =false;
    while (tried < NUM_TRIES && !result)
    {
    try {
        Entity entity = new Entity();

            result = entity.methodThatMakesUseOfRestApi();


    }  
     catch (<it's been ages now, I don't want to wait any longer>) {
        if ( tried == NUM_TRIES)
        {
           throw new TimeoutException();
        }

    }
                tried++;
            Thread.sleep(4000);
  }