requestTimeout has no effect (@elastic/elasticsearch v6.8.0),

I am trying to set a relavtively short requestTimout, but it seems that the requestTimeout has no effect at all. Tried setting it to 0ms ans 1ms, but it does not time out, and the requests finishes successfully.

Client is created like this:

const client = new Client({
		node: url,
		requestTimeout: 0
	});

and I do an mget() to fetch multiple documents:

const fetchDocuments = (ids) => {
	const docs = ids.map((id) => {
		return {
			_index: 'my-index',
			_type: '_doc',
			_id: id,
		};
	});
	return client.mget({
		body: { docs }
	});
};

No matter what I set the requestTimeout to, it does not time out. This becomes an issue if elastic is unresponsive, and the requests hang.

[havber]

@delvedor I was able to work around this using Promise.race([...]) (https://italonascimento.github.io/applying-a-timeout-to-your-promises/). I’ll try to se if I can reproduce using es-reproduce-issue, or determine if there is a flaw in my implmentation, when I have the time to look into it.

[shusson]

I’m also seeing requestTimeout, say 10000, have seemingly no effect with v6.8.3.