Only retry for idempotent methods

[softonic]

Only retry for idempotent methods

[rubennorte]

@htfy96 have you ever experienced such behaviour? At the moment this plugin just retries safe network connection errors and explicitly avoids timeouts and cancellation errors (see https://github.com/softonic/axios-retry/blob/master/es/index.js#L107).

The retryCondition allows you to configure stricter conditions but with the base condition it should be fine.

[AlanFoster]

@htfy96 Check out what Stripe do to ensure their endpoints are idempotent:

https://stripe.com/blog/idempotency

[htfy96]

Here is my workaround. Hope that it would be default configuration:

const retryConfig = {
  retries: 3,
  retryCondition (err) {
    // only retry for idempotent methods
    return ['options', 'get', 'put', 'patch', 'head'].indexOf(err.config.method) > -1
  }
}

[AlanFoster]

I agree; That's a really simple work-around too 👍

[rubennorte]

I just released a new version (3.0.0) that retries idempotent requests by default along with network errors.