Retry

Simple and easy retry mechanism package for Go

Installation

Install the package using
go $ go get github.com/thedevsaddam/retry

Usage

To use the package import it in your *.go code
go import "github.com/thedevsaddam/retry"

Example

Simply retry a function to execute for max 10 times with interval of 1 second

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "time"

    "github.com/thedevsaddam/retry"
)

func main() {
    i := 1 // lets assume we expect i to be a value of 8
    err := retry.DoFunc(10, 1*time.Second, func() error {
        fmt.Printf("trying for: %dth time\n", i)
        i++
        if i > 7 {
            return nil
        }
        return fmt.Errorf("i = %d is still low value", i)
    })

    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    fmt.Println("Got our expected result: ", i)
}

We can execute function from other package with arguments and return values

package main

import (
    "errors"
    "log"
    "time"

    "github.com/thedevsaddam/retry"
)

func div(a, b float64) (float64, error) {
    if b == 0 {
        return 0, errors.New("Can not divide by zero")
    }
    return a / b, nil
}

func main() {
    a := 20.6
    b := 3.7 // if we assign 0.0 to b, it will cause an error and will retry for 3 times
    res, err := retry.Do(3, 5*time.Second, div, a, b)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    log.Println(res[0].Interface(), res[1].Interface())
}

License

The retry is an open-source software licensed under the MIT License.