Laravel-snappy: [Bug | Fixing Timeout] timeout => false times out after 60s

[Lednerb]

In the last 4 hours, I've tried to solve a problem with the exact error message as here https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-snappy/issues/9 and other similar issues regarding the _60 seconds timeout problem_.

First I thought that the error is caused by a bad timeout configuration at the PHP or Nginx containers or my reverse proxy (I use a https Nginx reverse proxy and the LaraDock).

After hours of testing which container may lead to the problem I've tested all timeouts and they worked correctly.

In #9 and the related issues, the "fix" was done by just optimizing the view so the script does not run longer than 60 seconds and they're fine.
In my case, I generate a PDF with around 2000 pages for a bigger print job so the generation would always take longer than the 60 seconds.

Here's the solution

Knp\Snappy\AbstractGenerator.php provides a setTimeout() functionality that somehow told the Symphony Process to have a greater timeout.

At the moment this does not work because their is no wrapper function for setTimeout:

PDF::loadView('anschreiben', ['data' => $data])
            ->setPaper('a4')
            ->setOption('margin-top', 0)
            ->setOption('margin-left', 0)
            ->setOption('margin-right', 0)
            ->setOption('margin-bottom', 0)
            ->setTimeout(3600)
            ->save(storage_path('app/pdfs/') . $pdfFileName);

My problem was fixed by manually overwrite This line from false to 3600 but it would be really nice to have this in the laravel-snappy wrapper to use it as tried above.

[Lednerb]

@barryvdh just checked the config/snappy.php file again because I'm configuring a new project.

I think I've checked that the timeout is settable via the config file? :flushed:

I will check this soon...

EDIT:
Okay, I understand now.

If someone has a similar problem, you can set the timeout in the config:

'pdf' => array(
        'enabled' => true,
        'binary' => base_path('vendor/h4cc/wkhtmltopdf-amd64/bin/wkhtmltopdf-amd64'),
        'timeout' => 3600,
        'options' => array(),
        'env'     => array(),
    ),

[Lednerb]

I've just searched for the exact same issue for a while and found my old Issue with the solution! :+1: for me!

Why is the 'timeout' => false option still not working as expected?
I expect that there will not be any timeout at all. That's very confusing.

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