SWF: How to set client side socket timeout?

[amatthies]

Documentation for SWF.Client.poll_for_decision_task says:

Workers should set their client side socket timeout to at least 70 seconds (10 seconds higher than the maximum time service may hold the poll request).

But how do I do that?
socket.setdefaulttimeout(70) has no effect.

When polling, I do sometimes get timeout errors as

botocore.vendored.requests.packages.urllib3.exceptions.ReadTimeoutError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='swf.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com', port=443): Read timed out. (read timeout=60)

DEBUG botocore.retryhandler - Retry needed, action of: 6.221778283110354
DEBUG botocore.endpoint - Response received to retry, sleeping for 6.221778283110354 seconds

I also don't know how to avoid the retries, so my polling workers are sleeping for longer and longer - and I'm forced to continue using boto2.

[jamesls]

Thanks for pointing this out. There's no config option for this currently. Marking this as a feature request.

[rjpereira]

After raising the problem above some time ago, I found a temporary workaround (until properly fixed) by editing botocore/endpoint.py and changing

DEFAULT_TIMEOUT = 70

not ideal, but got me back on track...

[rayluo]

The finalized usage is documented at the top of this PR