Unable to make async rest request from a before business rule?

[dachtman]

I have a business rule that runs on insert and update on a app scoped table.The business rule calls a restful webservice and based on the response the operation should either be aborted or continue.

When I run this as a before rule I get an error stating Use an async business rule to perform outbound HTTP requests. I have tried switching the webservice to use executeasync and that has caused more errors with truncation of the endpoint. I have also tried switching the business rule to async but that doesn't allow for me to stop the current operation.

[xMTinkerer]

Bryan Barnard, did you have anything else to add to this? I was out for a few days, and in getting ready to submit my app I realized the way we are doing it now is not usable. The user is forced to wait 20+ seconds for the request to complete. I'm not sure why this is different, in Eureka we did the same and the user did not experience this 20+ second ui freeze.

[xMTinkerer]

Bryan Barnard, We have a use case that makes a PUT followed by a POST and both are async (because otherwise they would throw the big bad error message above). However, this freezes the UI for a full 40 seconds.

It seems like doing an async call should not freeze the UI like this because the call is done "asynchronously". Is this expected behavior?

[bryanbarnard]

That does not seem right. Can you give me instance version info this is occurring on?

[xMTinkerer]

I've seen it all through Fuji. My latest test was Patch 6.

[bryanbarnard]

Can you share the business rule scripts you are running either here or offline?