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[Thomas Strehl <thomas.strehl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/03/2014 10:29 PM, Robert Schroll wrote:
> 
>> However, when a new query is sent to the scope, the old query has
>> cancel() called on it. You may need to add additional code to close the
>> connection to the server, or similar, when you receive the cancel call.
> 
> Presumably a scope could set up a timeout and only send out the HTTP
> request if it doesn't get a cancel() in that time.  Any gotchas with
> that approach?

Hardcoding this timeout will always delay the query even if the user
"hit" return when entering the search query. Practically, especially on
the phone, it might not have a very noticeable impact depending on the
general speed of the service to be queried.



Thomas