Increase ODataServicesOperationTimeout for Longer Debugging

TL;DR

Invoke-ScriptInBCContainer [container name] {Set-NavServerConfiguration bc -KeyName ODataServicesOperationTimeout -KeyValue 00:20:00 -ApplyTo All}

Timeout Error

If you use AL Test Runner to debug your tests then you are using the OData services to run the test in the background. OData calls have a timeout that is determined by the ODataServicesOperationTimeout key in the service tier configuration. The timeout is set to 8 minutes by default.

This means that a debug session will be closed after 8 minutes and if you haven’t finished you will receive an error like this:

The operation has been canceled because it took longer to generate rows than the specified threshold (00:08:00). Refine your filters to include less data and try again.

Debugging something for more than 8 minutes isn’t a happy place to be – but it happens. You step into a posting routine, the guts of some complex calculations or you aren’t really sure where to start and have to step through loads of code to try to narrow down the field of investigation. That was me this morning.

You can increase the timeout, for longer, blissfully uninterrupted debugging sessions. Yay. You can use the above command (on the Docker host) to set a new value for the timeout in hh:mm:ss. I don’t know if there is a maximum limit on the timeout but if you need more than 20 minutes, as per the example, then you have my sympathy!