Merge branch 'ipc-timeout'

2 files changed, 23 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/app/lib/ipc-facade.js b/app/lib/ipc-facade.js
index 798b4d2805..3a0a4cc101 100644
--- a/app/lib/ipc-facade.js
+++ b/app/lib/ipc-facade.js
@@ -53,7 +53,10 @@ export class RealIpc implements IpcFacade {
   }
 
   getAccountData(accountNumber: AccountNumber): Promise<AccountData> {
-    return this._ipc.send('get_account_data', accountNumber)
+    // send the IPC with 30s timeout since the backend will wait
+    // for a HTTP request before replying
+
+    return this._ipc.send('get_account_data', accountNumber, 30000)
       .then(raw => {
         if (typeof raw === 'object' && raw && raw.expiry) {
           return raw;
diff --git a/app/lib/jsonrpc-ws-ipc.js b/app/lib/jsonrpc-ws-ipc.js
index 597d6830fe..46ccf51668 100644
--- a/app/lib/jsonrpc-ws-ipc.js
+++ b/app/lib/jsonrpc-ws-ipc.js
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ export class InvalidReply extends Error {
   }
 }
 
-const DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_MILLIS = 750;
+const DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_MILLIS = 5000;
 
 export default class Ipc {
 
@@ -75,7 +75,6 @@ export default class Ipc {
   _websocket: WebSocket;
   _backoff: ReconnectionBackoff;
   _websocketFactory: (string) => WebSocket;
-  _sendTimeoutMillis: number;
 
   constructor(connectionString: string, websocketFactory: ?(string)=>WebSocket) {
     this._connectionString = connectionString;
@@ -83,7 +82,6 @@ export default class Ipc {
     this._unansweredRequests = {};
     this._subscriptions = {};
     this._websocketFactory = websocketFactory || (connectionString => new WebSocket(connectionString));
-    this._sendTimeoutMillis = DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_MILLIS;
 
     this._backoff = new ReconnectionBackoff();
     this._reconnect();
@@ -93,10 +91,6 @@ export default class Ipc {
     this._connectionString = str;
   }
 
-  setSendTimeout(millis: number) {
-    this._sendTimeoutMillis = millis;
-  }
-
   on(event: string, listener: (mixed) => void): Promise<*> {
 
     log.info('Adding a listener to', event);
@@ -113,12 +107,13 @@ export default class Ipc {
       });
   }
 
-  send(action: string, ...data: Array<mixed>): Promise<mixed> {
+  send(action: string, data: mixed, timeout: number = DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_MILLIS): Promise<mixed> {
     return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
       const id = uuid.v4();
 
-      const timerId = setTimeout(() => this._onTimeout(id), this._sendTimeoutMillis);
-      const jsonrpcMessage = jsonrpc.request(id, action, data);
+      const params  = this._prepareParams(data);
+      const timerId = setTimeout(() => this._onTimeout(id), timeout);
+      const jsonrpcMessage = jsonrpc.request(id, action, params);
       this._unansweredRequests[id] = {
         resolve: resolve,
         reject: reject,
@@ -138,6 +133,20 @@ export default class Ipc {
     });
   }
 
+  _prepareParams(data: mixed): Array<mixed>|Object {
+    // JSONRPC only accepts arrays and objects as params, but
+    // this isn't very nice to use, so this method wraps other
+    // types in an array. The choice of array is based on try-and-error
+
+    if(data === undefined || data === null) {
+      return [];
+    } else if (Array.isArray(data) || typeof(data) === 'object') {
+      return data;
+    } else {
+      return [data];
+    }
+  }
+
   _getWebSocket() {
     return new Promise(resolve => {
       if (this._websocket && this._websocket.readyState === 1) { // Connected