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Enhancement: add support for .retry(n)

See original GitHub issue

In a perfect world, there would be no ECONREST or ENOTFOUND, or 504, but in the real-world, especially when performing functional/integration tests while another team might be running load tests on a shared test environment, it would be really helpful to not bail at the first sign of trouble.

This enhancement request is for the addition of a ‘.retry(n)’ request option.

i.e.

request(http://mydomain.com)
    .post('something_wonderful')
    .set('User-Agent', 'tester-testtown-testington')
    .send(data)
    .retry(3)
    .end(function(error, res) {

      if (error) throw error;
      callback(null, res);
    });

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Created 9 years ago
Comments:8

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kristerkaricommented, Oct 11, 2014

Actually, it would be nice Supertest allowed Superagent plugins to be set up by the user. I’m not sure if that can currently be done without changes to Supertest code.

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nhnicwallercommented, Aug 8, 2019

Was this issue closed because there are no plans to add retry support for supertest?

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