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Require retry support for 503 service unavailable errors while uploading files to Cloud storage

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
google-cloud, java
Domain
api, cloud

Research direction

Start by tracing the generated storage client's file-upload entry point and comparing it with the retry facilities in google-java-http-client. Clarify how retry behavior should be exposed and configured, then verify that transient 503 upload failures are retried with exponential backoff.

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Description

priority: p4 type: feature request

We have been using the google-api-services-storage library for client-side integration for our customers. Off late, a few customers are reporting consistent "503 service unavailable" errors during upload to Cloud storage. We had a look at the library code and don't see any retry mechanism/exponential backoff as part of the library, but the underlying google-java-http-client library has. Is there any possibility of enhancing the storage library to expose retries?

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