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Please consider retries for the Octokit client

See original GitHub issue

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I just ran into a problem where a call to the Github API unexpectedly returned a 404 error. This failed our workflow. The error was intermittent and wasn’t reproducible when I re-ran the job.

Describe the solution you’d like

I’d like any API calls made by the github client to be retried, preferably using the retry plugin

Describe alternatives you’ve considered

I’ve considered adding the retry logic to our workflow but this defeats the purpose of having a pre-authenticated API client.

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Created 3 years ago
Reactions:4
Comments:13 (2 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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joshmgrosscommented, Nov 2, 2021

Since not all consumers may want this behavior, we could support it behind an optional input

  enable-retries:
    description: Whether to use the retry plugin to retry GitHub requests
    default: false

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markmssdcommented, Apr 4, 2022

Until this is officially supported, we have achieved the same by using the wrap hook, here’s a great example from @gr2m: https://github.com/octokit/octokit.js/issues/1069#retry