How do I handle AX timeouts where the operation continues on? Abort not working? - axapta

Question

I have a custom AX service operation that can take 5+ minutes to complete and I'm trying to figure out how to abort it from my .NET application, but aborting the client doesn't seem to do anything?
The problem is if I call the operation and the service times out, the AX operation continues on until completion, so I lose visibility to the results (success/failure). An example being a long-running posting operation where I don't know if it posted successfully or not.
I've created a simple demo app where I can't seem to get the operation to abort. In the below code I just create a transaction (ttsbegin/ttscommit), insert into a table at start, sleep, insert into table at end.
Sample AX X++ Service Code:
[SysEntryPointAttribute(true)]
public str callAXTimeDelay(int _sleepSeconds)
{
Table1 table1;
ttsBegin;
table1.clear();
table1.SleepData = strFmt("STARTED: %1", DateTimeUtil::utcNow());
table1.insert();
ttsCommit;
sleep(_sleepSeconds * 1000);
ttsBegin;
table1.clear();
table1.SleepData = strFmt("COMPLETED: %1", DateTimeUtil::utcNow());
table1.insert();
ttsCommit;
return strFmt("COMPLETED: %1", DateTimeUtil::utcNow());
}
Then when I call it from .NET, the abort doesn't seem to work? Start/Complete records are still inserted into table1 even though the abort is called before the 15 seconds have completed?
Sample .NET code:
internal class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
new Program().Run();
Console.WriteLine("Ended, press any key to exit...");
Console.ReadKey();
}
public void Run()
{
AXServicesClient axClient15Sec = new AXServicesClient();
AXServicesClient axClient5sec = new AXServicesClient();
var job15sec = DoLongRunningCall(axClient15Sec, 15);
var job5sec = DoLongRunningCall(axClient5sec, 5);
try
{
var result = Task.Run(() => Task.WhenAny(job15sec, job5sec)).GetAwaiter().GetResult();
if (result == job15sec)
{
Console.WriteLine("job15sec finished first, aborting job5sec");
axClient5sec.Abort();
}
else if (result == job5sec)
{
// This code gets executed because the 5 second job completed and
// it tries to cancel the 15-sec job, but the table ends up with data!
Console.WriteLine("job5sec finished first, aborting job15sec");
axClient15Sec.Abort();
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
Console.WriteLine("Exception: " + e.Message);
axClient15Sec.Abort();
axClient5sec.Abort();
}
axClient15Sec.Close();
axClient5sec.Close();
}
public async Task<string> DoLongRunningCall(AXServicesClient client, int seconds)
{
var result = await client.callAXTimeDelay(new CallContext
{
Company = "ABCD",
Language = "en-us"
}, seconds);
return result.response;
}
}