Set timeout for loading external resources contained by a document

The documents may contain external resources such as graphics that should be loaded during document rendering. 

Before v19.12 default timeout was 100 seconds which may slow down rendering in case a service that provides external resources is down.

In v19.12 we’ve set default timeout to 30 seconds and enabled users to specify the desired timeout in LoadOptions class.

This feature is supported for:

• Word Processing File Formats 

The following code snippet shows how to set a timeout for loading external resources:

    LoadOptions loadOptions = new LoadOptions();
    loadOptions.setResourceLoadingTimeout(5000);

    try (Viewer viewer = new Viewer("sample.doc", loadOptions)) {

        HtmlViewOptions viewOptions = HtmlViewOptions.forEmbeddedResources();
        viewer.view(viewOptions);
    }

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GitHub Examples

You may easily run the code above and see the feature in action in our GitHub examples:

• GroupDocs.Viewer for Java examples, plugins, and showcase
• Document Viewer for .NET App WebForms UI Modern Example
• Document Viewer for Java App Dropwizard UI Modern Example
• Document Viewer for Java Spring UI Example
• GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET samples, plugins and showcase
• Document Viewer for .NET MVC UI Example 

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