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I am making a bot on dialogflow with a webhook. I get an error : DEADLINE_EXCEEDED. My webhook takes a bit over 5 seconds to return a response. Is there a way to allow a longer time than 5 seconds ?

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This is not possible. One possibility is to (if you have for example a background task which takes some time) is to send back (before the 5 sec timeout) an Event. This triggers again a call to the Webhook, so you get another 5 sec to finish your background process.

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Beppe C
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  • Won't this make my webhook process start over if it is triggered a second time ? – Emma Vande Wouwer Jan 07 '20 at 09:07
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    It depends on your code. After the first request you start a background task, with your second request (after the event) you just need to check the status of the background thread (isCompleted flag) and obtain the result. – Beppe C Jan 07 '20 at 09:38
  • @BeppeC Could you elaborate on it by giving a sample code – m b Mar 19 '21 at 06:12