timeout inside the context about solana-go-sdk HOT 11 CLOSED

I don't get it. could you explain it more?

the context is used for making http request.
https://github.com/portto/solana-go-sdk/blob/main/rpc/client.go#L63

your sending tokens behavior will be packed in a tx and then you send it.

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An empty context is used when sending the tokens in this line of code

txhash, err := c.SendTransaction(context.Background(), tx)

I'm asking if I could give the context a timeout like so.

ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 5)

And then insert this context into the transaction like so

txhash, err := c.SendTransaction(ctx, tx)

Would this work?

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It will be a very very short time if you only give 5 here. iirc WithTimeout default is nano second
maybe try to use some thing like

context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 1*time.Second)

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Ok so if I do it like this will it terminate the transaction after 5 seconds?

context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 5*time.Second)

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to be more precisely, the transaction will fail by

1. the sending process over 5 secs
   or
2. your transaction don't pass the preflight check

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So how can I put a timeout on this transaction so the transaction will fail after say 3, 4 or even 5 seconds?

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Your transaction will execute by validators after you send it. You can only wait for the result.
This thing I don't think can fulfill in SDK level, even program level.

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Ok.
So then how can I put a timeout on this transaction?

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As I said, the timeout is only for http request and I don't think you can put a timeout for a transaction in SDK level even program level.

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So if the solana Blockchain goes down while a transaction is being processed, what happens?

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I'm going to close this issue.
Feel free to open another issue for questions related to this SDK.

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