+ /**
+ * Set a timeout value for the synchronous SDL read, write and remove operations.
+ * By default synchronous read, write and remove operations do not have any timeout
+ * for the backend data storage readiness, operations are pending interminable to
+ * finish until backend is ready. With this API function default behaviour can be
+ * changed and when a timeout happens, an error exception is risen for the SDL
+ * operation in question. To avoid unnecessary timeout failure due to a temporal
+ * connection issue, it is recommended not to set too short timeout value.
+ * Reasonable timeout value is 5 seconds or bigger value. On a side note, timeout
+ * value 0 means interminable pending time.
+ *
+ * @param timeout Timeout value to set.
+ */
+ virtual void setOperationTimeout(const std::chrono::steady_clock::duration& timeout) = 0;
+