How Can I Timeout A Google Maps Geocoder Via Javascript?

I am very new to javascript and I am having issues with timing out the geocoder requests. But I am stuck, I tries to add delays into loop, but seems like they don't work. If you ca

Solution 1:

When you submit the geocode request, you can start a timer in parallel and when the timer fires, you can declare the request to have timed out. The request will still continue, but you can ignore the results once it has timed out:

function getLatLong(address, callback){
    var timerId;
    var timedOut = false;

    var geo = new google.maps.Geocoder;
    geo.geocode({'address':address},function(results, status){
        if (timedOut) {
            // this request timed out, so ignore results
            return;
        } else {
            // this request succeeded, so cancel timer
            clearTimeout(timerId);
        }

        if (status == google.maps.GeocoderStatus.OK) {
            locs = results[0].geometry.location; 
            callback(locs);
        } else {
            //alert("Geocode was not successful for the following reason: " + status);
        }
    });

    timerId = setTimeout(function() {
        timedOut = true;
        alert('Request timed out.');
        // do something else
    }, 10000);
}