Timeout idea.

[diaspar]

This is more a question than an issue. Do you think an optional parameter for timeout will be beneficial?

If found this code in a legacy project I am mantaining

    /**
     * Keep trying a number of times until it actually saves. This is for really important tasks.
     *
     * @param $entity
     * @param int $iterations
     * @return bool
     */
    public function reallySave( $entity, $iterations = 5 ) {
        for( $i = 0; $i < $iterations; $i++ ) {
            if( $entity->save() ) {
                return TRUE;
            }

            //sleep for 100 milliseconds between each try. Without the delay two back to back attempts are likely to fail.
            usleep( 100 * 1000 );
        }
        return FALSE;
    }

I don't know if this is a bad practice, but I think retry could replace this.

[igorw]

Duplicate of #2.