withMaxDurationPerTry

[failsafe-lib]

withMaxDurationPerTry

[jhalterman]

@Tryio What you're thinking of sounds like a different use case - being able to interrupt or cancel a running execution. You can of course do that right now, manually, for synchronous executions via Thread.interrupt or asynchronous executions via FailsafeFuture.cancel, but there's not currently a timer that will do it for you if that's what you were thinking. We could consider something like that, but I'm hesitant to put it in unless there are a few really solid use cases.

[jhalterman]

Hi @ZaziroZ - Something like this could make sense, but could also yield surprising behavior depending on how it's used. Are you thinking, basically, that retries would stop if/when maxDurationPerTry is exceeded? Also, can you give me an idea what your use case (or some other use cases) for this might be?

[lucaguada]

Hi! Is it something for the RetryPolicy definition? If it's so it would be better «abortAfter(long, TimeUnit)», but anyway, the example/case may be the large files download scenario: let's assume I have several files that I need to download, I don't know the size, I don't know my end-user's connection speed and at least I want some of them right now. If one of them is big enough to slow down the process, then skip it.

What do you think about it?
Thx!

[jhalterman]

Unless the OP has any more input/details on this (see my comment above), I'm closing for now.