Design pattern for “retrying” logic that failed?

Question

I\'m writing some reconnect logic to periodically attempt to establish a connection to a remote endpoint which went down. Essentially, the code looks like this:

Answer 1

I'm using AOP and Java annotations. There is a ready-made mechanism in jcabi-aspects (I'm a developer):

@RetryOnFailure(attempts = 3, delay = 1, unit = TimeUnit.SECONDS)
public void establishConnection() {
  this.connection = newConnection();
}

ps. You can also try RetryScalar from Cactoos.