+setMaxTimeout() method to the api

Author: Ran Yitzhaki

README.md

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ const udpSocket = require('dgram').createSocket('udp4');
 const server = udpIO(udpSocket);
 
 server.bind(33334);
-
+server.setMaxTimeout(4000);
 server.send('MY_AWESOME_EVENT', { question: 'how are you ?' }, 33335).then((res) => {
   console.log(`answer: ${res.answer}`);
 });
@@ -61,5 +61,8 @@ server.send('MY_AWESOME_EVENT', { question: 'how are you ?' }, 33335).then((res)
   send an event to a certain host, returns an es6 Promise.
   `eventName` is a string and `host` is default to localhost.
 
+#### server.setMaxTimeout(milliseconds)
+  change the max timeout for a request,
+  which after that the request expires.
 ## License
 MIT

src/udp-io.js

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ module.exports = function() {
   const server = dgram.createSocket('udp4');
   const pongCbs = {};
   const pingCbs = {};
+  let maxTimeout = 5000;
 
   server.on('message', function(response, rinfo) {
     const parsedRes = JSON.parse(response.toString());
@@ -46,6 +47,10 @@ module.exports = function() {
       server.bind(port, host);
     },
 
+    setMaxTimeout: function(milliseconds) {
+      maxTimeout = milliseconds;
+    },
+
     send: function(eventType, msg, port, host) {
       host = host || '127.0.0.1';
 
@@ -68,7 +73,7 @@ module.exports = function() {
 
         setTimeout(function () {
           delete pongCbs[id];
-        }, 5000);
+        }, maxTimeout);
       });
     },