// Package temperrcatcher provides a TempErrCatcher object, // which implements simple error-retrying functionality. package temperrcatcher import ( "time" ) // InitialDelay governs how long to wait the first time. // This is defaulted to time.Millisecond, which makes sense // for network listener failures. You may want a much smaller // delay. You can configure this package wide, or in each // TempErrCatcher var InitialDelay = time.Millisecond // Temporary is an interface errors can implement to // ensure they are correctly classified by the default // TempErrCatcher classifier type Temporary interface { Temporary() bool } // ErrIsTemporary returns whether an error is Temporary(), // iff it implements the Temporary interface. func ErrIsTemporary(e error) bool { te, ok := e.(Temporary) return ok && te.Temporary() } // TempErrCatcher catches temporary errors for you. It then sleeps // for a bit before returning (you should then try again). This may // seem odd, but it's exactly what net/http does: // http://golang.org/src/net/http/server.go?s=51504:51550#L1728 // // You can set a few options in TempErrCatcher. They all have defaults // so a zero TempErrCatcher is ready to be used: // // var c tec.TempErrCatcher // c.IsTemporary(tempErr) // type TempErrCatcher struct { IsTemp func(error) bool // the classifier to use. default: ErrIsTemporary Wait func(time.Duration) // the wait func to call. default: time.Sleep Max time.Duration // the maximum time to wait. default: time.Second Start time.Duration // the delay to start with. default: InitialDelay delay time.Duration last time.Time } func (tec *TempErrCatcher) init() { if tec.Max == 0 { tec.Max = time.Second } if tec.IsTemp == nil { tec.IsTemp = ErrIsTemporary } if tec.Wait == nil { tec.Wait = time.Sleep } if tec.Start == 0 { tec.Start = InitialDelay } } // IsTemporary checks whether an error is temporary. It will call // tec.Wait before returning, with a delay. The delay is also // doubled, so we do not constantly spin. This is the strategy // net.Listener uses. // // Note: you will want to call Reset() if you get a success, // so that the stored delay is brough back to 0. func (tec *TempErrCatcher) IsTemporary(e error) bool { tec.init() if tec.IsTemp(e) { now := time.Now() if now.Sub(tec.last) > (tec.delay * 5) { // this is a "new streak" of temp failures. reset. tec.Reset() } if tec.delay == 0 { // init case. tec.delay = tec.Start } else { tec.delay *= 2 } if tec.delay > tec.Max { tec.delay = tec.Max } tec.Wait(tec.delay) tec.last = now return true } tec.Reset() // different failure. call reset return false } // Reset sets the internal delay counter to 0 func (tec *TempErrCatcher) Reset() { tec.delay = 0 } // ErrTemporary wraps any error and implements Temporary function. // // err := errors.New("beep boop") // var c tec.TempErrCatcher // c.IsTemporary(err) // false // c.IsTemporary(tec.ErrTemp{err}) // true // type ErrTemporary struct { Err error } func (e ErrTemporary) Temporary() bool { return true } func (e ErrTemporary) Error() string { return e.Err.Error() } func (e ErrTemporary) String() string { return e.Error() }