Apache thrift: client timeout issues

Question

I have some Apache Thrift (v.0.6.1) test application with perl-server and php-client.

The behaviour I cannot explain: If we call server-method with invalid argument we see the error in server-output, but php-client stays waiting the response infinitely.

Here are the sources of server:

sub new {
    my $classname = shift;
    my $self      = {};

    return bless($self,$classname);
}

sub DateToTimestamp
{
    my ($self, $date) = @_;
    my $result = CommonAPI::DateToTimestamp($date);
    return $result;
}

eval {
  my $handler       = new RPCHandler;
  my $processor     = new RPCPerformanceTest::RPCPerformanceTestProcessor($handler);
  my $serversocket  = new Thrift::ServerSocket(9091);
  my $forkingserver = new Thrift::ForkingServer($processor, $serversocket);
  print "Starting the server...\n";
  $forkingserver->serve();
  print "done.\n";
}; if ($@) {
  if ($@ =~ m/TException/ and exists $@->{message}) {
    my $message = $@->{message};
    my $code    = $@->{code};
    my $out     = $code . ':' . $message;
    die $out;
  } else {
    die $@;
  }
}

and client:

try {

    $socket = new TSocket($server_host, $server_port);

    $transport = new TBufferedTransport($socket, 1024, 1024);
    $protocol = new TBinaryProtocol($transport);

    $client = new RPCPerformanceTestClient($protocol);
    $transport->open();

    $start = microtime(true);

    $result = $client->DateToTimestamp('071/26/2011 01:23:45');

    var_dump($result);

} catch (Exception $e) {
    echo 'Exception: <b>' . $e->getMessage() . '</b>';
}

Why is this happening? Is it my fault? Is it expected behavour?

Answer 1

The Thrift PHP library is a bit broken. You need to manually set the timeouts E.g.

  $socket = new TSocket('host', 9095);
  $socket->setSendTimeout(60000);
  $socket->setRecvTimeout(60000)