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I have a service that is waiting for a response from another service that I have to poll.

Is there a sleep/wait command, e.g. just to sleep for a second?

I want to write a poll loop like pseudo code:

do {
request status
if status is OK {
break;
}
if timeout {
break
}
sleep for 1 second
} while true // forever

Hi William,

Try the following function:prefunction sleep(milliseconds) {
var start = new Date().getTime();
for (var i = 0; i < 1e7; i++) {
if ((new Date()&#46;getTime() - start) milliseconds){
break;
}
}
}/pre
To call it run:presleep(1000);/preThe delay equals 1 second.

Thanks, but I don't want to put a spin loop on a server ...

tried sleep, delay, wait, timeout, setTimeout -- they're not supported.

I thought mayb since REST calls are blocking you might have a blocking call to wait.

I could always put the polling on the client, but it would be cleaner to do on the server.

William,

This won't work on server. You would need to implement this on client side.