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

[Texiwill]

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.

Best regards,

Edward L. Haletky

VMware Communities User Moderator

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[admin · Accepted solution]

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.

[stumpr]

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";

}