gdata client can hang indefinitely (no connectTimeout/readTimeout support) about gdata-java-client HOT 8 OPEN

It appears that the code reference may be off depending on the version of the 
api
(1.14.0 was the original reference). However, this is a more general problem.
Anywhere in the code where HttpUrlConnections are being created/made, they 
aren't
being setup with any connect/read timeouts, so each of these areas is affected. 

1.14.1 areas:

...gdata.client.http.AuthSubUtil
...gdata.client.http.HttpGDataRequest
...gdata.client.GoogleAuthTokenFactory

Also an issue with the migration API usages.  Had to use a separate timer 
thread and guess how long is too long, 
since there's no status from gdata on the connection should it drop.  If only 
gdata used the Apache HttpClient...

HttpGDataRequest has setConnectTimeout(int) and setReadTimeout(int).  Seems 
like it 
would be good to allow timeout to be specified for the other 
HttpURLConnection's.

Internal Tracking ID: 1697100

I am getting the same error:
java.net.SocketTimeoutException: connect timed out
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:333)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:195)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:182)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:507)
at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(NetworkClient.java:152)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:365)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:477)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.<init>(HttpClient.java:214)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:287)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:299)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getNewHttpClient
(HttpURLConnection.java:792)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect
(HttpURLConnection.java:744)
at 
sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.connect(HttpURLConnection.java:669)
at 
com.google.gdata.client.http.HttpGDataRequest.execute(HttpGDataRequest.java:488)
at com.google.gdata.client.http.GoogleGDataRequest.execute
(GoogleGDataRequest.java:515)
at com.google.gdata.client.Service.getFeed(Service.java:1053)
at com.google.gdata.client.Service.getFeed(Service.java:916)
at com.google.gdata.client.GoogleService.getFeed(GoogleService.java:631)
at com.google.gdata.client.Service.getFeed(Service.java:935)

Source:
YouTubeService service = new YouTubeService(CLIENT_ID, DEVELOPER_KEY);
service.setConnectTimeout(10000);
service.setReadTimeout(10000);
VideoFeed videoFeed = service.getFeed(new URL(FEED_URL), VideoFeed.class);

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Are we doing something about it?

In general we recommend migrating to google-api-java-client, which does have a 
default connection/read timeout of 20 seconds for all requests and allows you 
to customize it as a global variable:

http://code.google.com/p/google-api-java-client/