I'm making calls to an external API which requires some time to initialize the resource I'm asking for after the initial call to create that resource.
Right now I have a piece of code which queries the API for status on the resource in a while loop, which breaks once the resource is ready. However this sends an unnecessary amount of status requests to the API. I would like to add a 60 second delay wait in the while loop before it calls the API again.
Is there a way to replicate this behavior?
In your case, 'senddelayedmessage(....)' command is used generally.
You need to use senddelayedmessage command in a trigger you want and the message will be received to On Message trigger.
'Send object' will be able to other receiving object or itself object also. The delay time parameter will be 60 seconds.
Thanks for the reply! I forgot to mention I'm sending this request to an external REST API via Flexsim Http.Request, not between any Flexsim objects. Looking at the documentation, it seems to take in a "from" object and a "to" object. Would this function still work out?
It sounds like you're not using the synchronous method for the request 'sendAndWait()'
So the problem is that you are getting a repsonse and it's not the one you want. Is the model running at this point (e.g. very slowly so that you can schedule events in FlexSim time)? You could check against the realtime value to see if 60 real second have elapsed since the last call.
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