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Praetorian65 Outbound message timeouts
Is there a way to increase the timeout on an outbound message? I have an outbound message that generates product data on an external database but with a large amount of products this takes time. If the webservice times out it causes the data to be generated again. This is very very bad.
I could return immediately and process asynchronously but this defeats the object of outbound messaging. Just because the webservice is active it doesn't mean it will succeed.
Not sure I follow. Are you using callouts (ie web services invoked from Apex) or Outbound Messaging (a workflow rule sends a SOAP message to an endpoint)? I ask because those are different technologies. I could be wrong, but from your explanation, it sounds more like a callout since you are talking about time-outs. Can you please clarify?
Outbound messaging. Outbound messages timeout just the same as a regular apex webservice callout, only in outbound messaging I don't appear to be able to extend the timeout period.
The timeout makes the outbound messaging system "thinks" the outbound message has failed and so it attempts to send it again when really the original message is still processing on my server.