Question: Can HealthcheckWaitStrategy make use of the HEALTHCHECK defined on the image?

[rhoban13]

What are you trying to do?

HealthcheckWaitStrategy initializes _startup_timeout from the testcontainers configuration. It can be overridden by calling with_startup_timeout.

Is there a way to indicate "Use whatever is defined on the image we are starting"?

Where are you trying to do it?

MyContainer.waiting_for(HealthcheckWaitStrategy.with_startup_timeout(XXXX))
# XXXX should be > whatever is defined on the container image

[alexanderankin]

yes theoretically you should be able to inspect the container in the strategy target (pretty sure we do not have such a thing) and then HealthCheckWaitStrategy should probably have a boolean field which defaults to true for using the image's timeout, otherwise, with the overridden timeout (with_startup_timeout(None)) sets it to True again using the images thing.

https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-java/blob/905a445ad8b701e4c531aa652e42179072a88d01/core/src/main/java/org/testcontainers/containers/ContainerState.java#L99-L120

were you thinking along these same lines?

[rhoban13]

Basically yes. I was realizing I can call inspect on the image to get that value, but it'd make sense to somehow obtain that from the Container object itself. Trying a few ideas before I land on something that feels "right" to propose.