Add retries and timeout options to API calls

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#185 opened on Nov 8, 2024 1 comment 1 reaction 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Difficulty: 4/5
Estimated time: 3-5 days
Newbie friendliness: 35/100

Issue type: Feature
Clarity: Mostly clear
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: openapi, python
Domain: api

Research direction

Start by tracing GhApi and how it makes API calls, then identify where shared defaults can be applied. Define and verify retries, timeout, and optional retry-wait behavior for all calls, including the documented default retry count and exponential backoff expectation.

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Description

Add to all the API calls the retries and timeout options to manage the error responses. Consider a retry-wait option to manage retry speed.

retries - number of times to try the request before failing (default=1)
timeout - time to wait before interpreting the request as failed
retry-wait - the base time to wait between tries for exponential backoff

Note: retries should probably be tries but the parameter name retries is in too wide use to fight against.

It would be useful if these options were added to GhApi as defaults for all API calls made.

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