request-repeat

Wraps both request-promise-native and retry-as-promised together, in order to provide an easy way to do requests with retries while returning a promise.

Note: request-promise option resolveWithFullResponse will be always set to true. Hence, the result of any successful request would always contain the full response, regardless its user-defined value.

API

request-repeat should support all request-promise-native functionality, so you can pass all options as you would pass them to the original package

retry

request-repeat should support all retry-as-promised functionality, so you can pass all options as you would pass them to the original package by setting them in retry object

retry: {
  /* retry-as-promised options */
}

In addition to the original package options, the following extra options are accepted

retryOn5xx

enable retry on any 5xx error

retry: {
  retryOn5xx: true
}

retryStrategyFn

a function that is used to decide on what other cases to do a retry

retry: {
  retryStrategyFn: function (response) {
    // return a boolean
  }
}

successFn

a function that is called on success

retry: {
  successFn: function (request, response, errorCount) {
    // do something on success
  }
}

errorFn

a function that is called on error

retry: {
  errorFn: function (request, error, errorCount) {
    // do something on error
  }
}

Usage

var request = require('request-repeat');
 
var options = {
  url: 'http://www.site-with-issues.com',
  body: {/* body */},
  json: true,
  retry: {
    max: 3,
    backoffBase: 500,
    retryOn5xx: true,
    retryStrategyFn: function(response) {
      return response.statusCode === 500 && response.body.match(/Temporary error/);
    },
    errorFn: function(request, error, errorCount) {
      console.error(`- Request to ${request.url} failed on the ${retries} attempt with error ${error.message}`);
    },
    successFn: function(request, response) {
      console.info(`- Got status-code ${response.statusCode} on request to ${request.url}`);
    }
  }
}

Result

> request.post(options).then()...
- "Request to http://www.site-with-issues.com failed on the 1 attempt with RequestError: Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND www.site-with-issues.com www.site-with-issues.com:80"
- "Request to http://www.site-with-issues.com failed on the 2 attempt with RequestError: Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND www.site-with-issues.com www.site-with-issues.com:80"
- "Got status-code 200 on request to http://www.site-with-issues.com"

Usage with defaults

var request = require('request-repeat');
 
var requestWithDefaults = request.defaults({
  json: true,
  retry: {
    max: 3,
    backoffBase: 500,
    retryOn5xx: true,
    retryStrategyFn: function(response) {
      return response.statusCode === 500 && response.body.match(/Temporary error/);
    },
    errorFn: function(request, error, errorCount) {
      console.error(`- Request to ${request.url} failed on the ${retries} attempt with error ${error.message}`);
    },
    successFn: function(request, response) {
      console.info(`- Got status-code ${response.statusCode} on request to ${request.url}`);
    }
  }
});
 
requestWithDefaults.get('http://www.site-with-issues.com').then...