How to set connection timeout for RestTemplate in spring?

We can set the timeout for RestTemplate by doing some custom configuration for RestTemplate.

First you need to create a class named as HttpClientConfig in this class we configure HttpClient because RestTemplate internally uses the HttpClient.

package com.codebyakram;

import org.apache.http.client.config.RequestConfig;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Value;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;

@Configuration
public class HttpClientConfig {

 public static final Logger LOGGER = org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(HttpClientConfig.class.getName());
 // Determines the timeout in milliseconds until a connection is established.
 private static final int CONNECT_TIMEOUT = 30000;

 // The timeout when requesting a connection from the connection manager.
 
 private int REQUEST_TIMEOUT = 10000;
 
 @Bean
 public CloseableHttpClient httpClient() {
  RequestConfig requestConfig = RequestConfig.custom().setConnectionRequestTimeout(REQUEST_TIMEOUT).build();
  return HttpClients.custom().setDefaultRequestConfig(requestConfig).build();
 }
}

Here in this class we setting HttpClient in RestTemplate

package com.codebyakram;

import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.http.client.HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory;
import org.springframework.scheduling.TaskScheduler;
import org.springframework.scheduling.concurrent.ThreadPoolTaskScheduler;
import org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate;

@Configuration
public class RestTemplateConfig {

 @Autowired
 CloseableHttpClient httpClient;


 @Bean
 public RestTemplate restTemplate() {
  RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate(clientHttpRequestFactory());
  return restTemplate;
 }

 @Bean
 public HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory clientHttpRequestFactory() {
  HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory clientHttpRequestFactory = new HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory();
  clientHttpRequestFactory.setHttpClient(httpClient);
  return clientHttpRequestFactory;
 }

 @Bean
 public TaskScheduler taskScheduler() {
  ThreadPoolTaskScheduler scheduler = new ThreadPoolTaskScheduler();
  scheduler.setThreadNamePrefix("poolScheduler");
  scheduler.setPoolSize(50);
  return scheduler;
 }
}

So now we are done with the cofiguration of request timeout for RestTemplate.