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Package description
The retry npm package provides a set of functions for implementing retry behavior in your code. This is particularly useful when dealing with operations that may fail due to transient errors, such as network requests, database operations, or any other tasks that might not succeed on the first attempt. The package allows you to customize the retry strategy, including the number of attempts, the interval between attempts, and the criteria for retrying.
Simple retry operation
This code sample demonstrates how to perform a simple retry operation. It uses the `operation.attempt` method to try an operation that might fail. If the operation fails, it uses `operation.retry` to determine if a retry should be attempted based on the current strategy.
const retry = require('retry');
const operation = retry.operation();
operation.attempt(currentAttempt => {
performSomeOperation(error => {
if (error) {
if (operation.retry(error)) {
return;
}
console.error('Operation failed:', error);
} else {
console.log('Operation succeeded');
}
});
});Custom retry strategy
This code sample shows how to set up a custom retry strategy with specific options such as the number of retries, the backoff factor, and the minimum and maximum timeout between retries. The `randomize` option adds some randomness to the retry intervals to prevent overloading the server.
const retry = require('retry');
const operation = retry.operation({
retries: 5,
factor: 3,
minTimeout: 1 * 1000,
maxTimeout: 60 * 1000,
randomize: true
});
operation.attempt(currentAttempt => {
performSomeOperation(error => {
if (error) {
if (operation.retry(error)) {
return;
}
console.error('Operation failed after ' + currentAttempt + ' attempts:', error);
} else {
console.log('Operation succeeded on attempt ' + currentAttempt);
}
});
});The async-retry package provides similar functionality to retry, but with a focus on async/await syntax. It allows you to wrap asynchronous functions in a retry mechanism with a simple and clean API.
p-retry is a package that offers retry functionality for promises. It is designed to work seamlessly with async functions and provides a declarative way to retry asynchronous operations that return promises.
retry-axios is an adapter for the axios HTTP client that introduces retry functionality. It is specifically tailored for HTTP requests and integrates directly with axios, allowing you to add retry behavior to your HTTP requests with minimal configuration.
Readme
Abstraction for exponential and custom retry strategies for failed operations.
npm install retry
This module has been tested and is ready to be used.
The example below will retry a potentially failing dns.resolve operation
10 times using an exponential backoff strategy. With the default settings, this
means the last attempt is made after 17 minutes and 3 seconds.
var dns = require('dns');
var retry = require('retry');
function faultTolerantResolve(address, cb) {
var operation = retry.operation();
operation.attempt(function(currentAttempt) {
dns.resolve(address, function(err, addresses) {
if (operation.retry(err)) {
return;
}
cb(err ? operation.mainError() : null, addresses);
});
});
}
faultTolerantResolve('nodejs.org', function(err, addresses) {
console.log(err, addresses);
});
Of course you can also configure the factors that go into the exponential backoff. See the API documentation below for all available settings. currentAttempt is an int representing the number of attempts so far.
var operation = retry.operation({
retries: 5,
factor: 3,
minTimeout: 1 * 1000,
maxTimeout: 60 * 1000,
randomize: true,
});
Creates a new RetryOperation object. See the retry.timeouts() function
below for available options.
Returns an array of timeouts. All time options and return values are in
milliseconds. If options is an array, a copy of that array is returned.
options is a JS object that can contain any of the following keys:
retries: The maximum amount of times to retry the operation. Default is 10.factor: The exponential factor to use. Default is 2.minTimeout: The number of milliseconds before starting the first retry. Default is 1000.maxTimeout: The maximum number of milliseconds between two retries. Default is Infinity.randomize: Randomizes the timeouts by multiplying with a factor between 1 to 2. Default is false.The formula used to calculate the individual timeouts is:
var Math.min(random * minTimeout * Math.pow(factor, attempt), maxTimeout);
Have a look at this article for a better explanation of approach.
If you want to tune your factor / times settings to attempt the last retry
after a certain amount of time, you can use wolfram alpha. For example in order
to tune for 10 attempts in 5 minutes, you can use this equation:
Explaining the various values from left to right:
k = 0 ... 9: The retries value (10)1000: The minTimeout value in ms (1000)x^k: No need to change this, x will be your resulting factor5 * 60 * 1000: The desired total amount of time for retrying in ms (5 minutes)To make this a little easier for you, use wolfram alpha to do the calculations:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Sum%5B1000x^k%2C+{k%2C+0%2C+9}%5D+%3D+5++60+*+1000
Creates a new RetryOperation where timeouts is an array where each value is
a timeout given in milliseconds.
Returns an array of all errors that have been passed to
retryOperation.retry() so far.
A reference to the error object that occured most frequently. Errors are
compared using the error.message property.
If multiple error messages occured the same amount of time, the last error object with that message is returned.
If no errors occured so far, the value is null.
Defines the function fn that is to be retried and executes it for the first
time right away. The fn function can receive an optional currentAttempt callback that represents the number of attempts to execute fn so far.
Optionally defines timeoutOps which is an object having a property timeout in miliseconds and a property cb callback function.
Whenever your retry operation takes longer than timeout to execute, the timeout callback function cb is called.
This is an alias for retryOperation.attempt(fn). This is deprecated.
This is an alias for retryOperation.attempt(fn). This is deprecated.
Returns false when no error value is given, or the maximum amount of retries
has been reached.
Otherwise it returns true, and retries the operation after the timeout for
the current attempt number.
Returns an int representing the number of attempts it took to call fn before it was successful.
retry is licensed under the MIT license.
#Changelog
0.6.0 Introduced optional timeOps parameter for the attempt() function which is an object having a property timeout in miliseconds and a property cb callback function. Whenever your retry operation takes longer than timeout to execute, the timeout callback function cb is called.
0.5.0 Some minor refactorings.
0.4.0 Changed retryOperation.try() to retryOperation.attempt(). Deprecated the aliases start() and try() for it.
0.3.0 Added retryOperation.start() which is an alias for retryOperation.try().
0.2.0 Added attempts() function and parameter to retryOperation.try() representing the number of attempts it took to call fn().
FAQs
Abstraction for exponential and custom retry strategies for failed operations.
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