retryx

About

retryx (ritrɪ́ks) is a Promise-based retry workflow library.

Installation

$ npm install --save retryx

Usage

Flowchart

API

retryx

retryx(main [, options [, ...args]])

main is a function returns Promise that might be rejected. Required

options is a object contains maxTries, waiter and other hooks. Optional

...args will be passed to main function call. Optional

options

{
  maxTries:       number,
  timeout:        number,
  waiter:         HookFunction,
  retryCondition: HookFunction,
  beforeTry:      HookFunction,
  afterTry:       HookFunction,
  beforeWait:     HookFunction,
  afterWait:      HookFunction,
  doFinally:      HookFunction,
}

HookFunction can receive current try count and last reject reason as arguments. See source.

maxTries

Attempts calling main function specified times or until succeeds.

Set -1 to retry unlimitedly.

default: 5

timeout

Sets the timeout.

Set -1 to no timeout.

default: -1

waiter

Hook function called before each retry. It's meant to return a Promise that resolves after specific duration.

default: exponential backoff. 200ms, 400ms, 800ms, 1600ms and so on.

See default waiter implementation. You can create custom waiter with wait function for shorthand.

retryCondition

Hook function called AFTER each try. If it returns falsy value, retrying will be abandoned even not reaching maxTries.

default: always return true

beforeTry

Hook function called BEFORE each try.

default: nothing to do

afterTry

Hook function called AFTER each try.

default: nothing to do

beforeWait

Hook function called BEFORE each wait.

default: nothing to do

afterWait

Hook function called AFTER each wait.

default: nothing to do

doFinally

Hook function called ONCE whether main function resolved or rejected.

default: nothing to do

Creating an instance

You can create a new instance of retryx with a custom config.

retryx.create(options)

const myRetryx = retryx.create({
  maxTries: 100,
  waiter:   () => new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, 10)),
});

Examples

With AWS SDK

const retryx = require("retryx");
const AWS = require("aws-sdk");

const ec2 = new AWS.EC2();

retryx(() => ec2.describeRegions().promise()).then(response => {
  console.log(response);
});

With axios

const retryx = require("retryx");
const axios = require("axios");

retryx(() => axios.get("http://example.com")).then(response => {
  console.log(response.statusText);
});

With async/await

import retryx from "retryx";

(async () => {
  try {
    const result = await retryx(() => {
      const number = Math.round(Math.random() * 100);

      if (number > 95) {
        return number;
      } else {
        throw number;
      }
    });

    console.log("success", result);
  } catch (n) {
    console.log("fail:", n)
  }
})();

With hooks

const retryx = require("retryx");

retryx(() => {
  const number = Math.round(Math.random() * 100);
  return number > 95 ? Promise.resolve(number) : Promise.reject(number);
}, {
  maxTries:   100,
  beforeWait: (tries) => console.log(`try #${tries} failed. wait 100 ms`),
  waiter:     () => new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 100)),
}).then(result => {
  console.log(`success: ${result}`);
});

TypeScript type inference

import retryx from "retryx";

(async () => {
  let result = await retryx(() => 123);
  result = "abc"; // ERROR: Type '"abc"' is not assignable to type 'number'.
})();

TypeScript generics

import retryx from "retryx";

(async () => {
  let result = await retryx<string>(() => { // Explicitly specifies type of promised value to return.
    const number = Math.round(Math.random() * 100);

    if (number < 50) {
      throw new Error();
    } else if (number < 80) {
      return "good";
    } else if (number < 90) {
      return "great";
    } else {
      return number; // ERROR: Type 'number' is not assignable to type 'string | Promise<string>'.
    }
  });
})();

See also

• Test codes

Development

$ git clone
$ cd retryx
$ yarn

Test.

$ yarn test