[Question] Cancel a retry policy

[conradob]

Sorry to raise an issue just to ask a question but is there a way to cancel a retry policy?

The use case I'm trying to achieve is if the user attempts to redo the same action that was being retried, would like to cancel the current retry and then create a new retry with the updated data.

Is it possible?

Thanks for the terrific work with this tool.

[connor4312]

Not right now. Something I've been meaning to do has been allowing you to pass a cancellation token through IPolicy.execute. I'll add that tonight.

[connor4312]

Added: https://github.com/connor4312/cockatiel#retryexecutefn-cancellationtoken

Cancelling the token will cause the last error emitted by the function to be bubbled.

[conradob]

I'm not sure if I'm missing something but I couldn't make the retry policy stop using the cancellation token.

Here follow the example of a simple experiment I did to cancel a retry after 5 attempts.

I know cockatiel provide retry policy attempts but this is just a figurative test to play with the cancellation token

https://github.com/conradob/cockatiel-retry-playground

[connor4312]

You need to pass in the cancellation token, not the source:

diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index ad8a922..32d3c1e 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ const main = async () => {
 
   const result = await retryPolicy.execute(
     () => failCallback(),
-    cancellationTokenSource
+    cancellationTokenSource.token
   )

   console.log(result)

[conradob]

That is it.
Perfect. Thanks for all your support.