Robotics Service Bus

Currently, it is not possible to call an RPC function 'synchronously' with a timeout. This means all calls executed this way will block forever if the RPC call is not answered.

Since the synchronous call is more or less a wrapper for the async version, it would be useful to add the timeout keyword to call of RemoteMethod:

# patterns/__init__.py

class RemoteMethod (Method):
    ...
    def __call__(self, arg = None, timeout = 0):
         ...
         return self.async(arg).get(timeout)

This current workaround with server.method.async(arg).get(timeout) is a bit tedious.

Best regards!