Quartz retry when failure

Question

Let\'s say I have a trigger configured this way:

Answer 1

I would recommend an implementation like this one to recover the job after a fail:

final JobDataMap jobDataMap = jobCtx.getJobDetail().getJobDataMap();
// the keys doesn't exist on first retry
final int retries = jobDataMap.containsKey(COUNT_MAP_KEY) ? jobDataMap.getIntValue(COUNT_MAP_KEY) : 0;

// to stop after awhile
if (retries < MAX_RETRIES) {
  log.warn("Retry job " + jobCtx.getJobDetail());

  // increment the number of retries
  jobDataMap.put(COUNT_MAP_KEY, retries + 1);

  final JobDetail job = jobCtx
      .getJobDetail()
      .getJobBuilder()
       // to track the number of retries
      .withIdentity(jobCtx.getJobDetail().getKey().getName() + " - " + retries, "FailingJobsGroup")
      .usingJobData(jobDataMap)
      .build();

  final OperableTrigger trigger = (OperableTrigger) TriggerBuilder
      .newTrigger()
      .forJob(job)
       // trying to reduce back pressure, you can use another algorithm
      .startAt(new Date(jobCtx.getFireTime().getTime() + (retries*100))) 
      .build();

  try {
    // schedule another job to avoid blocking threads
    jobCtx.getScheduler().scheduleJob(job, trigger);
  } catch (SchedulerException e) {
    log.error("Error creating job");
    throw new JobExecutionException(e);
  }
}

Why?

1. It will not block Quartz Workers
2. It will avoid back pressure. With setRefireImmediately the job will be fired immediately and it could lead to back pressure issues