Is it possible to cancel a long running HTTP reque...

# ktor

[napperley]

Is it possible to cancel a long running HTTP request without having a exception thrown?

[e5l]

Hi @napperley, you can try withTimeoutOrNull

[napperley]

Is there is no way to manually to cancel a request without a timeout occurring?

[napperley]

Found what I was looking for: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/coroutines/cancellation-and-timeouts.html

[napperley]

With the Job I used a isActive property check along with a cancel function call, eg:

if (refreshJob != null && refreshJob!!.isActive) {
    refreshJob?.cancel(CancellationException("Refresh cancelled by user"))
    refreshJob = null
    // ...
}

[e5l]

Yep. And you can get response job in client like this: myHttpResponse.coroutineContext[Job]