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Simple library for retry mechanism
slightly inspired by
[Try::Tiny::Retry](https://metacpan.org/pod/Try::Tiny::Retry)
### SYNOPSIS
http get with retry:
url := "http://example.com"
var body []byte
err := retry.Do(
func() error {
resp, err := http.Get(url)
if err != nil {
return err
}
defer resp.Body.Close()
body, err = ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body)
if err != nil {
return err
}
return nil
},
)
fmt.Println(body)
[next examples](https://github.com/avast/retry-go/tree/master/examples)
### SEE ALSO
* [giantswarm/retry-go](https://github.com/giantswarm/retry-go) - slightly
complicated interface.
* [sethgrid/pester](https://github.com/sethgrid/pester) - only http retry for
http calls with retries and backoff
* [cenkalti/backoff](https://github.com/cenkalti/backoff) - Go port of the
exponential backoff algorithm from Google's HTTP Client Library for Java. Really
complicated interface.
* [rafaeljesus/retry-go](https://github.com/rafaeljesus/retry-go) - looks good,
slightly similar as this package, don't have 'simple' `Retry` method
* [matryer/try](https://github.com/matryer/try) - very popular package,
nonintuitive interface (for me)
### BREAKING CHANGES
1.0.2 -> 2.0.0
* argument of `retry.Delay` is final delay (no multiplication by `retry.Units`
anymore)
* function `retry.Units` are removed
* [more about this breaking change](https://github.com/avast/retry-go/issues/7)
0.3.0 -> 1.0.0
* `retry.Retry` function are changed to `retry.Do` function
* `retry.RetryCustom` (OnRetry) and `retry.RetryCustomWithOpts` functions are
now implement via functions produces Options (aka `retry.OnRetry`)
## Usage
#### func BackOffDelay
```go
func BackOffDelay(n uint, config *Config) time.Duration
```
BackOffDelay is a DelayType which increases delay between consecutive retries
#### func Do
```go
func Do(retryableFunc RetryableFunc, opts ...Option) error
```
#### func FixedDelay
```go
func FixedDelay(_ uint, config *Config) time.Duration
```
FixedDelay is a DelayType which keeps delay the same through all iterations
#### func IsRecoverable
```go
func IsRecoverable(err error) bool
```
IsRecoverable checks if error is an instance of `unrecoverableError`
#### func Unrecoverable
```go
func Unrecoverable(err error) unrecoverableError
```
Unrecoverable wraps an error in `unrecoverableError` struct
#### type Config
```go
type Config struct {
}
```
#### type DelayTypeFunc
```go
type DelayTypeFunc func(n uint, config *Config) time.Duration
```
#### type Error
```go
type Error []error
```
Error type represents list of errors in retry
#### func (Error) Error
```go
func (e Error) Error() string
```
Error method return string representation of Error It is an implementation of
error interface
#### func (Error) WrappedErrors
```go
func (e Error) WrappedErrors() []error
```
WrappedErrors returns the list of errors that this Error is wrapping. It is an
implementation of the `errwrap.Wrapper` interface in package
[errwrap](https://github.com/hashicorp/errwrap) so that `retry.Error` can be
used with that library.
#### type OnRetryFunc
```go
type OnRetryFunc func(n uint, err error)
```
Function signature of OnRetry function n = count of attempts
#### type Option
```go
type Option func(*Config)
```
Option represents an option for retry.
#### func Attempts
```go
func Attempts(attempts uint) Option
```
Attempts set count of retry default is 10
#### func Delay
```go
func Delay(delay time.Duration) Option
```
Delay set delay between retry default is 100ms
#### func DelayType
```go
func DelayType(delayType DelayTypeFunc) Option
```
DelayType set type of the delay between retries default is BackOff
#### func LastErrorOnly
```go
func LastErrorOnly(lastErrorOnly bool) Option
```
return the direct last error that came from the retried function default is
false (return wrapped errors with everything)
#### func OnRetry
```go
func OnRetry(onRetry OnRetryFunc) Option
```
OnRetry function callback are called each retry
log each retry example:
retry.Do(
func() error {
return errors.New("some error")
},
retry.OnRetry(func(n uint, err error) {
log.Printf("#%d: %s\n", n, err)
}),
)
#### func RetryIf
```go
func RetryIf(retryIf RetryIfFunc) Option
```
RetryIf controls whether a retry should be attempted after an error (assuming
there are any retry attempts remaining)
skip retry if special error example:
retry.Do(
func() error {
return errors.New("special error")
},
retry.RetryIf(func(err error) bool {
if err.Error() == "special error" {
return false
}
return true
})
)
The default RetryIf stops execution if the error is wrapped using
`retry.Unrecoverable`, so above example may also be shortened to:
retry.Do(
func() error {
return retry.Unrecoverable(errors.New("special error"))
}
)
#### type RetryIfFunc
```go
type RetryIfFunc func(error) bool
```
Function signature of retry if function
#### type RetryableFunc
```go
type RetryableFunc func() error
```
Function signature of retryable function
## Contributing
Contributions are very much welcome.
### Makefile
Makefile provides several handy rules, like README.md `generator` , `setup` for prepare build/dev environment, `test`, `cover`, etc...
Try `make help` for more information.
### Before pull request
please try:
* run tests (`make test`)
* run linter (`make lint`)
* if your IDE don't automaticaly do `go fmt`, run `go fmt` (`make fmt`)
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