_TIMEOUT

How long, in milliseconds, a script may run for before timing out.

_TIMEOUT (along with _TO) are global variables that provide the length of time, in milliseconds, that a top-level script execution is allowed to run for before being terminated. It is currently 5000.

Syntax

_TIMEOUT;
_TO;

Example

A script that wants to check how close it is to timing out can use _TIMEOUT along with [[_START]], [[_END]], Date.now() or scripts.lib's [[can_continue_execution]]:

function(context, args) {
  // allow for at least 500ms of runtime
  let bail_after_ms = (_TIMEOUT - 500)

  // do stuff

  if((Date.now() - _START) > bail_after_ms){
    return "Less than 500ms left! Bailing!"
  }

  // do more stuff

  return "Script completed without timing out"
}