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jacques_ca
Maven
4 years ago

Wait And Sleep in Freemarker

Hi   Is there a function wait/sleep/setTimeOut in Freemarker that we can use before executing anything? I made a search in Freemarker site, Google, Stackoverflow and I don't see anything.
  • peterlu's avatar
    peterlu
    4 years ago

    I don't think Freemarker has this built-in.

    What is your exact user case? Maybe some Javascript can help?

    Or use an endpoint to poke a AWS lambda node.js function. Inside the lambda function you can do a wait. Then you can config eg. 5 seconds for the lambda function to return. Then your httpclient in freemarker can continue execute after 5ish seconds. LOL

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peterlu
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I don't think Freemarker has this built-in.

What is your exact user case? Maybe some Javascript can help?

Or use an endpoint to poke a AWS lambda node.js function. Inside the lambda function you can do a wait. Then you can config eg. 5 seconds for the lambda function to return. Then your httpclient in freemarker can continue execute after 5ish seconds. LOL

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jacques_ca
Maven
4 years ago

Thanks Peter!

 

It is for an endpoint on khoros. We initiate an ajax call to an endpoint via a js file. Inside the endpoint, we make api call to S3. On failure, we retry the call. Knowing that it could be due to a server error, we prefer to space them every x seconds. 

You are right. We can use lambda function for that instead. It is an option I haven't explored yet. Thanks