i build several apps that sychronize with a Webservice and/or FTP Server but lately we have more often a time out problem. The problem is that upload of a photo's take to long and/or the webservice takes to long to sent a responce.
The synchronisation to the server is a b4a Service with a structure like this:
- sent XML data to a WebService (HttpUtils2 version 2.01) and wait for responce if the xml is processed
(we get a massage back if its processed or if something did go wrong)
- Set in sqlite database that the data is processed or handle the error
- Sent next XML data to a WebService and wait
- Set in sqlite database that the data is processed or handle the error
- This do we several 1 to X time
- last step is to upload the photos with FTP (sometimes we use EncodeBase64 instead of FTP)
- if all goes well the service is stopped and we go back to the app.
Problem 1
The problem is that the webservice is very slow with responding (we already set timeout to 1 minute)
and then we get a time out and code goes to next XML message without set the data as processed in the
sqllite database.
Problem 2
The tablet camera are better now a days and the photo's get bigger and bigger (customer request that the resolution of the photo is max resolution) and we had cases that the customer try to sent 100+ photos to the FTP Server with a upload of 50-100k upload. This takes so long the App get a android message not responding and the app crashes.
If we use EncodeBase64 to sent photos to the webservice the websevice is responding very slow also.
Question 1:
What is the best methode to sychronise with slow responding WebService (They wont change the webservice much for us) but we have to wait until the we get a responce from the webservice before
we sent the next set of data? (with testing we noticed that the responce time is regualar between 1 and 2 minutes and sometimes even slower)
Question 2:
What is the best way to sent lot (100+ photos of 2m+ ) of photos to the Server (FTP/EncodeBase64) wihout the app gets a not android not responding message?
The synchronisation to the server is a b4a Service with a structure like this:
- sent XML data to a WebService (HttpUtils2 version 2.01) and wait for responce if the xml is processed
(we get a massage back if its processed or if something did go wrong)
- Set in sqlite database that the data is processed or handle the error
- Sent next XML data to a WebService and wait
- Set in sqlite database that the data is processed or handle the error
- This do we several 1 to X time
- last step is to upload the photos with FTP (sometimes we use EncodeBase64 instead of FTP)
- if all goes well the service is stopped and we go back to the app.
Problem 1
The problem is that the webservice is very slow with responding (we already set timeout to 1 minute)
and then we get a time out and code goes to next XML message without set the data as processed in the
sqllite database.
Problem 2
The tablet camera are better now a days and the photo's get bigger and bigger (customer request that the resolution of the photo is max resolution) and we had cases that the customer try to sent 100+ photos to the FTP Server with a upload of 50-100k upload. This takes so long the App get a android message not responding and the app crashes.
If we use EncodeBase64 to sent photos to the webservice the websevice is responding very slow also.
Question 1:
What is the best methode to sychronise with slow responding WebService (They wont change the webservice much for us) but we have to wait until the we get a responce from the webservice before
we sent the next set of data? (with testing we noticed that the responce time is regualar between 1 and 2 minutes and sometimes even slower)
Question 2:
What is the best way to sent lot (100+ photos of 2m+ ) of photos to the Server (FTP/EncodeBase64) wihout the app gets a not android not responding message?
