Handling APN with delay

[ChannyAzar]

We have a worker that sends push notification for a given push ID.
The worker gets messages and sends PN according to the data.

The problem:
Sometimes the PN server responds with big delay. It got stuck in a middle of sending PN (maybe they limit number of APNS). It can take about an hour or more, and then, the PN is sent successfully and the queue started polling messages again..
But in this time, the worker can't push any message from the queue, so we have a big delay also for the other devices.

Is there a timeout option to Grocer.pusher ? (It's not appears in documentation)
Any other idea how to handle this?

[stevenharman]

Could you expand a bit on

Sometimes the PN server responds with big delay. It got stuck in a middle of sending PN

We currently use a non-blocking write and we read feedback off a different connection - I'm curious how you've detected the "delay?"

[ChannyAzar]

I'm following the logs. I saw it stuck in the line of pusher.push(notification).
After the delay, it prints the next log - after the above line.
During this delay - the worker can't push any message.

[ChannyAzar]

Is there a timeout option to Grocer.pusher that drops the connection? (It's not appears in documentation), or you use a regular Timeout module of ruby http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/libdoc/timeout/rdoc/Timeout.html?

[stevenharman]

We do not have a timeout feature in Grocer, but you could use Timeout to do it yourself. That said, I've not heard of other folks having this problem - I wonder if there's a way to reach out to Apple to see if they can provide any insight.

[ChannyAzar]

It can be a very useful feature.