Requests timeout fix

[momoroboflow]

Description

Implements timeout and max_retries for any functions that POST. Found out that there was an occasional hang due to network issues and the POST request would wait forever.

Type of change

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• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• This change requires a documentation update

How has this change been tested, please provide a testcase or example of how you tested the change?

Ran with a hosted model and confirmed that pipeline no longer gets stuck and does not fail for occasional network hiccups.

Any specific deployment considerations

None, default arguments maintain original functionality

Docs

• Docs updated? What were the changes: Updated in-code docstrings; need to update GitBook

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[robiscoding]

We should allow the caller to handle how they want to retry failed calls to predict. Retry backoff can be helpful in some cases, but not where, for example, there is no internet connection. Additionally, this implementation duplicates the __failsafe_post method across multiple files, which is undesirable because it'll require changing them all anytime we change one.