Simple utility to retry a task with a regenerated context each time.
Many aspects of the Shimmering Bee suite require communication with devices over a network, as such these communications may need to be retried. Each attempt needs to have a time limit, and there must be an overall limit.
This library uses contexts with timeouts to handle this scenario.
Add an import and most IDEs will go get automatically, if it doesn't go build will fetch.
import "github.com/shimmeringbee/retry"Wrapping retry around a network function which may fail but can be safely retried. Retry assumes success if the nested function returns nil, if err it will be immediately retried. This assumes that the network function correctly handles a context that expires.
err := retry.Retry(context.Background(), 250*time.Millisecond, 3, func(ctx context.Context) error {
return riskyNetworkFunction(ctx)
})Feel free to dive in! Open an issue or submit PRs.
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