Adding timeout to context config

[rubiojr]

Proposed change

It would be nice to be able to set timeout permanently in the cli context like other cli context settings. After researching it a bit doesn't seem I can nats context edit and set timeout there.

Is that correct? Intentional or unintended omission?

Use case

I sometimes run something like nats account backup --check nats-rubiojr to backup my account data. --check causes backup to fail with a context deadline exceeded unless I add --timeout 5m (or via env). The default (5 seconds), feels a bit too low for streams with data, times out easily.

Contribution

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[ripienaar]

It’s intentional. The CLI is used for so many purposes and have so may behaviours that I do not think there is a realistic one size fits all answer.

We can have a default timeout for api requests but for many other things we just can’t.