While developing a client application that uses its own styling, but also IBM Watson Assistant under the hood, problems have been discovered when the webhook's time is exceeded. The composition is as follows: a client app sends a request to Watson Assistant, from there the Assistant triggers a webhook, which after that triggers an IBM Cloud Function.
Following this link, a man can see that in one of the FAQs is stated, that the time limit (8 seconds) can not be extended. Does it include also the case when a call is made to a IBM Cloud Function?
Update:
async function main(){
try {
const orders = await db.getOrders();
if(orders.quantity > 0){
return {data: 'there are some orders'};
} else {
return {data: 'there are no orders'};
}
} catch(err) {
return {error: err.message};
}
}
Apologies if you are already doing this, but why not return a promise from your cloud function. That way the return is almost immediate falling within your 8 seconds, but the processing would become asynchronous.
eg.
function main (args) {
return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
...
});
}