Java HTTP Client Request with defined timeout

Question

I would like to make BIT (Built in tests) to a number of server in my cloud. I need the request to fail on large timeout.

How should I do this with java?

Trying something like the below does not seem to work.

public class TestNodeAliveness {
 public static NodeStatus nodeBIT(String elasticIP) throws ClientProtocolException, IOException {
  HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
  client.getParams().setIntParameter("http.connection.timeout", 1);

  HttpUriRequest request = new HttpGet("http://192.168.20.43");
  HttpResponse response = client.execute(request);

  System.out.println(response.toString());
  return null;
 }


 public static void main(String[] args) throws ClientProtocolException, IOException {
  nodeBIT("");
 }
}

-- EDIT: Clarify what library is being used --

I'm using httpclient from apache, here is the relevant pom.xml section

 <dependency>
   <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
   <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
   <version>4.0.1</version>
   <type>jar</type>
 </dependency>

Answer 1

import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.params.BasicHttpParams;
import org.apache.http.params.HttpConnectionParams;
import org.apache.http.params.HttpParams;

...

    // set the connection timeout value to 30 seconds (30000 milliseconds)
    final HttpParams httpParams = new BasicHttpParams();
    HttpConnectionParams.setConnectionTimeout(httpParams, 30000);
    client = new DefaultHttpClient(httpParams);

Answer 2

Op later stated they were using Apache Commons HttpClient 3.0.1

 HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
        client.getHttpConnectionManager().getParams().setConnectionTimeout(5000);
        client.getHttpConnectionManager().getParams().setSoTimeout(5000);

Answer 3

The said method with highest up's by Laz is deprecated from version 4.3 onwards. Hence it would be better to user the Request Config Object and then build the HTTP Client

    private CloseableHttpClient createHttpClient()
        {
        CloseableHttpClient httpClient;
        CommonHelperFunctions helperFunctions = new CommonHelperFunctions();
        PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager cm = new PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager();
        cm.setMaxTotal(306);
        cm.setDefaultMaxPerRoute(108);
        RequestConfig requestConfig = RequestConfig.custom()
            .setConnectTimeout(15000)
            .setSocketTimeout(15000).build();
        httpClient = HttpClients.custom()
            .setConnectionManager(cm)
            .setDefaultRequestConfig(requestConfig).build();
        return httpClient;
        }

The PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager is user to set the max default number of connections and the max number of conncetions per route. I have set it as 306 and 108 respectively. The default values will not be sufficient for most of the cases.

For setting Timeout: I have used the RequestConfig object. You can also set the property Connection Request Timeout for setting timeout for waiting for connection from Connection manager.