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2 Replies Last post: Aug 28, 2008 1:01 PM by stumpr

VI Perl Toolkit Times out... How to recover? posted: Aug 28, 2008 11:08 AM

Texiwill

10,205 posts since
Jan 13, 2004

Hello,

I have a long running VI Perl Toolkit program and would like to detect the timeout and respond to it by perhaps using Vim::load_session or Vim::logout/Vim::login.... How can I detect this time out of the session? Or does anyone have the length of time for which the session is good. I could not find it in the documentation.

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Re: VI Perl Toolkit Times out... How to recover?

1. Aug 28, 2008 11:47 AM

in response to: Texiwill

c_shanklin

754 posts since
Dec 3, 2007

The timeout is configurable in VC, and defaults to 30 minutes I believe.

To test your connection (or to keep it alive) you could retrieve the root folder, for example.

Re: VI Perl Toolkit Times out... How to recover?

2. Aug 28, 2008 1:01 PM

in response to: Texiwill

stumpr

451 posts since
Sep 26, 2007

I usually test against the currentSession property to see if my session is still active and valid.

my $sc = Vim::get_service_content();
my $session_manager = $sc->sessionManager;

my $sm = Vim::get_view(mo_ref => $session_manager);

if ($sm->currentSession)
{
print "Valid Session: " . $sm->currentSession->key . "\n";
}
else
{
die "Invalid Session\n";
}