Cleanest way to write retry logic?

Question

Occasionally I have a need to retry an operation several times before giving up. My code is like:

int retries = 3;
while(true) {
  try {
    DoSomething();
         


        

Answer 1

I know this answer is very old but I just wanted to comment on this because I have run into issues using these while, do, whatever statement with counters.

Over the years I have settled on a better approach I think. That is to use some sort of event aggregation like a reactive extensions "Subject" or the like. When a try fails, you simply publish an event saying the try failed, and have the aggregator function re-schedule the event. This allows you much more control over the retry without polluting the call itself with a bunch of retry loops and what not. Nor are you tying up a single thread with a bunch of thread sleeps.