IRPA & long AJAX calls

[chris_hanusch]

Hello community

I created an IRPA script on Desktop Studio that sequentially goes through 3 SOAP-AJAX calls (POST), each in their own step with the EndStep being placed within each calls success-handler.

Now, the AJAX calls themself work, they are doing their job in the backend, which is good but not sufficient for our usecase, since we rely on the success-handler to proceed further. Executed on postman or CMD (curl) the mentioned webserives would also (and always) return an adequate response.
However if I run a call in IRPA it usually goes into a timeout (the call itself can take 55 seconds and more).

The error that is returned is 12002 "Das Zeitlimit für den Vorgang wurde erreicht.". (The time leased has been exceeded)

CURL (executed in IRPA) does not work for us. We tried to implement the approach showcased by Jerome Grondin:
https://answers.sap.com/questions/13036165/odata-service-is-showing-error-a-security-error-is.html
... but upon longer requests IRPA would not close the CMD promt and run forever without the cmd.exec running into its success-handler function or catch error.

Did anyone go through this hassle before as well? Are there solutions?

Kind regards

Christian

[ketan_gandhirajan]

Hi Christian, I am facing the same issue, getting 12002 error - The operation has timed out. Were you able to find a solution to it. If yes can you please help here

[arun_srinivasan]

Hi Christian, We are facing the same timeout issue 12002 in desktop studio. Kindly share the solution if it is already resolved for you.

[chris_hanusch]

Hello

According to the developers AJAX Posts are not working properly at the moment. The approach is to use CURL through ctx.exec.

We noticed that ctx.exec is not working either - longer requests would never return a response. After correspondence with the developers the way to go is the execRun. Important to mention is that the response should be written to a file, afterwards the file has to be accessed ( e.g. ctx.readFile( resultfile ); ), example:

var auth = 'Authorization: Basic ' +    sc.data.currentItem.bAuth,
    resultfile = folder+"documents\\result.log",
    path = "https://"+cloudSystem+".sapbydesign.com/sap/bc/srt/scs/sap/whateverendpoint",

    cmd = "curl --location --request POST \""+path+"\" --header \"Content-Type: text/xml\" --header \""+auth+"\" --data-raw \""+soapMessage+"\" -o \""+resultfile+"\"";

try {
    var result = ctx.execRun( cmd, 0, true );
        if( result == 0 ) {
            var data = ctx.readFile( resultfile );
            sc.endStep(); 
            return;         
    }
    else {
        ctx.log( "Upload in failure.", e.logIconType.Error );
    }
} catch (error) {
}