Setting Connection Timeout Value for opensearch-py

OpenSearch Client Libraries
1

Hi, looking for a way to set a fail-fast timeout on connections to OpenSearch. I’ve tried setting timeout=5 from the client instantiation, but i’m still seeing 10 second exceptions, as set in

https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-py/blob/main/opensearchpy/connection/base.py

from opensearchpy import OpenSearch

    opensearch_client = OpenSearch(
        ... 
        timeout = 5
    )
2

It’s been two weeks with no input , so what i’ve done is a quick requests connection test before opening opensearch to see about basic reachability. In this way i can fast-fail for not reachable, and still maintain a long timeout for search queries that take longer.

3

Way late but the way to do it is described here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/77191094/4021308

search(
 index=index,
       body=search_body,
       params={
         "timeout":30, 
         "scroll": scroll, 
         "ignore": ignore, 
         "size": size
       }
)

basically you need to add it to the params per request