Timers API: setTimeout, setInterval, clearTimeout, clearInterval

[ppcano]

Browsers and NodeJS provide a Timers API. k6 could also provide a k6/timers API.

• setTimeout
• setInterval
• clearTimeout
• clearInterval

The WebSocket API provides the Socket.setTimeout and Socket.setInterval methods to delay a function call while the WebSocket connection is open.

May users want to use the k6/timers API for non-WebSocket tests as well?

If yes, the k6/timers API in conjunction with an API for the WebSocket connection status would deprecate the Socket.setTimeout and Socket.setInterval.

[liclac]

To be perfectly blunt, no. Node uses an event loop, k6 uses VU iterations. An API like this would make no sense for us, like I keep saying every time someone asks for this.

The websocket API is different because it starts its own event loop inside of a VU iteration.