Does Feign retry require some sort of configuration?

Question

I just tried to do a attempted a seamless upgrade of a service in a test setup. The service is being accessed by a Feign client. And naively I was under the impression that

Answer 1

If you are using ribbon you can set properties similar to the following (substituting "localapp" for your serviceid):

localapp.ribbon.MaxAutoRetries=5
localapp.ribbon.MaxAutoRetriesNextServer=5
localapp.ribbon.OkToRetryOnAllOperations=true

Answer 2

see if property works - OkToRetryOnAllOperations: true

You can refer application -> https://github.com/spencergibb/spring-cloud-sandbox/blob/master/spring-cloud-sandbox-sample-frontend/src/main/resources/application.yml

Spencer was quick...was late by few minutes :-)

Answer 3

ps underneath Feign has a Retryer interface, which was made to support things like Ribbon.

https://github.com/Netflix/feign/blob/master/core/src/main/java/feign/Retryer.java