Document programmatic retry support in the reference manual

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[[resilience]]
= Resilience Features
As of 7.0, the core Spring Framework includes a couple of common resilience features,
in particular `@Retryable` and `@ConcurrencyLimit` annotations for method invocations.
As of 7.0, the core Spring Framework includes common resilience features, in particular
<<resilience-annotations-retryable>> and <<resilience-annotations-concurrencylimit>>
annotations for method invocations as well as <<resilience-programmatic-retry,
programmatic retry support>>.
[[resilience-retryable]]
== Using `@Retryable`
[[resilience-annotations-retryable]]
== `@Retryable`
`@Retryable` is a common annotation that specifies retry characteristics for an individual
method (with the annotation declared at the method level), or for all proxy-invoked
methods in a given class hierarchy (with the annotation declared at the type level).
{spring-framework-api}/resilience/annotation/Retryable.html[`@Retryable`] is an annotation
that specifies retry characteristics for an individual method (with the annotation
declared at the method level), or for all proxy-invoked methods in a given class hierarchy
(with the annotation declared at the type level).
[source,java,indent=0,subs="verbatim,quotes"]
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}
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By default, the method invocation will be retried for any exception thrown: with at
most 3 retry attempts after an initial failure, and a delay of 1 second between attempts.
By default, the method invocation will be retried for any exception thrown: with at most 3
retry attempts after an initial failure, and a delay of 1 second between attempts.
This can be specifically adapted for every method if necessary for example, by narrowing
the exceptions to retry:
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----
@Retryable(maxAttempts = 5, delay = 100, jitter = 10, multiplier = 2, maxDelay = 1000)
@Retryable(
includes = MessageDeliveryException.class,
maxAttempts = 5,
delay = 100,
jitter = 10,
multiplier = 2,
maxDelay = 1000)
public void sendNotification() {
this.jmsClient.destination("notifications").send(...);
}
----
Last but not least, `@Retryable` also works for reactive methods with a reactive
return type, decorating the pipeline with Reactor's retry capabilities:
Last but not least, `@Retryable` also works for reactive methods with a reactive return
type, decorating the pipeline with Reactor's retry capabilities:
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----
@Retryable(maxAttempts = 5, delay = 100, jitter = 10, multiplier = 2, maxDelay = 1000)
@Retryable(maxAttempts = 5, delay = 100)
public Mono<Void> sendNotification() {
return Mono.from(...); // <1>
}
----
<1> This raw `Mono` will get decorated with a retry spec.
For details on the various characteristics, see the available annotation attributes
in {spring-framework-api}/resilience/annotation/Retryable.html[`@Retryable`].
For details on the various characteristics, see the available annotation attributes in
{spring-framework-api}/resilience/annotation/Retryable.html[`@Retryable`].
NOTE: There a `String` variants with placeholder support available for several attributes
as well, as an alternative to the specifically typed annotation attributes used in the
above examples.
NOTE: There are `String` variants with placeholder support available for several
attributes as well, as an alternative to the specifically typed annotation attributes used
in the above examples.
[[resilience-concurrency]]
== Using `@ConcurrencyLimit`
[[resilience-annotations-concurrencylimit]]
== `@ConcurrencyLimit`
`@ConcurrencyLimit` is an annotation that specifies a concurrency limit for an individual
method (with the annotation declared at the method level), or for all proxy-invoked
methods in a given class hierarchy (with the annotation declared at the type level).
{spring-framework-api}/resilience/annotation/ConcurrencyLimit.html[`@ConcurrencyLimit`] is
an annotation that specifies a concurrency limit for an individual method (with the
annotation declared at the method level), or for all proxy-invoked methods in a given
class hierarchy (with the annotation declared at the type level).
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<1> 1 is the default, but specifying it makes the intent clearer.
Such limiting is particularly useful with Virtual Threads where there is generally
no thread pool limit in place. For asynchronous tasks, this can be constrained on
Such limiting is particularly useful with Virtual Threads where there is generally no
thread pool limit in place. For asynchronous tasks, this can be constrained on
{spring-framework-api}/core/task/SimpleAsyncTaskExecutor.html[`SimpleAsyncTaskExecutor`].
For synchronous invocations, this annotation provides equivalent behavior through
{spring-framework-api}/aop/interceptor/ConcurrencyThrottleInterceptor.html[`ConcurrencyThrottleInterceptor`]
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framework.
[[resilience-enable]]
== Configuring `@EnableResilientMethods`
[[resilience-annotations-configuration]]
== Enabling Resilient Methods
Note that like many of Spring's core annotation-based features, `@Retryable` and
`@ConcurrencyLimit` are designed as metadata that you can choose to honor or ignore.
The most convenient way to enable actual processing of the resilience annotations
through AOP interception is to declare `@EnableResilientMethods` on a corresponding
configuration class. Alternatively, you may declare `RetryAnnotationBeanPostProcessor`
and/or `ConcurrencyLimitBeanPostProcessor` individually.
Like many of Spring's core annotation-based features, `@Retryable` and `@ConcurrencyLimit`
are designed as metadata that you can choose to honor or ignore. The most convenient way
to enable processing of the resilience annotations is to declare
{spring-framework-api}/resilience/annotation/EnableResilientMethods.html[`@EnableResilientMethods`]
on a corresponding `@Configuration` class.
Alternatively, these annotations can be individually enabled by defining a
`RetryAnnotationBeanPostProcessor` or a `ConcurrencyLimitBeanPostProcessor` bean in the
context.
[[resilience-programmatic-retry]]
== Programmatic Retry Support
In contrast to <<resilience-annotations-retryable>> which provides a declarative approach
for specifying retry semantics for methods within beans registered in the
`ApplicationContext`,
{spring-framework-api}/core/retry/RetryTemplate.html[`RetryTemplate`] provides a
programmatic API for retrying arbitrary blocks of code.
Specifically, a `RetryTemplate` executes and potentially retries a
{spring-framework-api}/core/retry/Retryable.html[`Retryable`] operation based on a
configured {spring-framework-api}/core/retry/RetryPolicy.html[`RetryPolicy`].
[source,java,indent=0,subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
var retryTemplate = new RetryTemplate(); // <1>
retryTemplate.execute(
() -> jmsClient.destination("notifications").send(...));
----
<1> Implicitly uses `RetryPolicy.withDefaults()`.
By default, a retryable operation will be retried for any exception thrown: with at most 3
retry attempts after an initial failure, and a delay of 1 second between attempts.
If you only need to customize the number of retry attempts, you can use the
`RetryPolicy.withMaxAttempts()` factory method as demonstrated below.
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----
var retryTemplate = new RetryTemplate(RetryPolicy.withMaxAttempts(5)); // <1>
retryTemplate.execute(
() -> jmsClient.destination("notifications").send(...));
----
<1> Explicitly uses `RetryPolicy.withMaxAttempts(5)`.
If you need to narrow the types of exceptions to retry, that can be achieved via the
`includes()` and `excludes()` builder methods.
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----
var retryPolicy = RetryPolicy.builder()
.includes(MessageDeliveryException.class) // <1>
.excludes(...) // <2>
.build();
var retryTemplate = new RetryTemplate(retryPolicy);
retryTemplate.execute(
() -> jmsClient.destination("notifications").send(...));
----
<1> Specify one or more exception types to include.
<2> Specify one or more exception types to exclude.
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====
For advanced use cases, you can specify a custom `Predicate<Throwable>` via the
`predicate()` method in the `RetryPolicy.Builder`, and the predicate will be used to
determine whether to retry a failed operation based on a given `Throwable` for example,
by checking the cause or the message of the `Throwable`.
Custom predicates can be combined with `includes` and `excludes`; however, custom
predicates will always be applied after `includes` and `excludes` have been applied.
====
The following example demonstrates how to configure a `RetryPolicy` with 5 retry attempts
and an exponential back-off strategy with a bit of jitter.
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var retryPolicy = RetryPolicy.builder()
.includes(MessageDeliveryException.class)
.maxAttempts(5)
.delay(Duration.ofMillis(100))
.jitter(Duration.ofMillis(10))
.multiplier(2)
.maxDelay(Duration.ofSeconds(1))
.build();
var retryTemplate = new RetryTemplate(retryPolicy);
retryTemplate.execute(
() -> jmsClient.destination("notifications").send(...));
----
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====
A {spring-framework-api}/core/retry/RetryListener.html[`RetryListener`] can be registered
with a `RetryTemplate` to react to events published during key retry phases (before a
retry attempt, after a retry attempt, etc.), and you can compose multiple listeners via a
{spring-framework-api}/core/retry/support/CompositeRetryListener.html[`CompositeRetryListener`].
====
Although the factory methods and builder API for `RetryPolicy` cover most common
configuration scenarios, you can implement a custom `RetryPolicy` for complete control
over the types of exceptions that should trigger a retry as well as the
{spring-framework-api}/util/backoff/BackOff.html[`BackOff`] strategy to use. Note that you
can also configure a customized `BackOff` strategy via the `backOff()` method in the
`RetryPolicy.Builder`.