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

You could try the Idempotent Retry Pattern.

Answer 2

If you are using java 8, this may helps.

import java.util.function.Supplier;

public class Retrier {
public static <T> Object retry(Supplier<T> function, int retryCount) throws Exception {
     while (0<retryCount) {
        try {
            return function.get();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            retryCount--;
            if(retryCount == 0) {
                throw e;
            }
        }
    }
    return null;
}

public static void main(String[] args) {
    try {
        retry(()-> {
            System.out.println(5/0);
            return null;
        }, 5);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        System.out.println("Exception : " + e.getMessage());
    }
}
}

Thanks,

Praveen R.

Answer 3

Using Failsafe (author here):

RetryPolicy retryPolicy = new RetryPolicy()
  .retryOn(IOException.class)
  .withMaxRetries(5)
  .withDelay(1, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

Failsafe.with(retryPolicy).run(() -> newConnection());

No annotations, no magic, doesn't need to be a Spring app, etc. Just straightforward and simple.

Answer 4

You can try spring-retry, it has a clean interface and it's easy to use.

Example:

 @Retryable(maxAttempts = 4, backoff = @Backoff(delay = 500))
 public void establishConnection() {
    this.connection = newConnection();
 } 

In case of exception, it will retry (call) up to 4 times the method establishConnection() with a backoff policy of 500ms

Answer 5

I'm using retry4j library. Test code example:

public static void main(String[] args) {
    Callable<Object> callable = () -> {
        doSomething();
        return null;
    };

    RetryConfig config = new RetryConfigBuilder()
            .retryOnAnyException()
            .withMaxNumberOfTries(3)
            .withDelayBetweenTries(5, ChronoUnit.SECONDS)
            .withExponentialBackoff()
            .build();

    new CallExecutorBuilder<>().config(config).build().execute(callable);
}

public static void doSomething() {
    System.out.println("Trying to connect");
    // some logic
    throw new RuntimeException("Disconnected"); // init error
    // some logic
}