What's the Scala way to implement a retry-able call like this one?

Question

Still the newbie in Scala and I\'m now looking for a way to implement the following code on it:

@Override
public void store(InputStream source, String destin         


        

Answer 1

I like the accepted solution, but suggest checking the exception is NonFatal:

// Returning T, throwing the exception on failure
@annotation.tailrec
def retry[T](n: Int)(fn: => T): T = {
  Try { fn } match {
    case Success(x) => x
    case _ if n > 1 && NonFatal(e) => retry(n - 1)(fn)
    case Failure(e) => throw e
  }
}

You don't want to retry a control flow exception, and usually not for thread interrupts...