"Hopefully it works this time"
This is a very simple C# framework for dealing with unreliable services. Sometimes the best way is to just retry it until it works.
We don't really know where to take this, but it was useful for our needs so we figured we'd put it out there and maybe it'll be useful for you. If you can think of a good way to extend it, pull requests are welcome.
Install Hopefully from NuGet, and then you can use it like so:
var client = new HttpClient();
var result = Procedure.Retry<string>(() =>
{
return client.DownloadString("http://unreliable.service/example.json");
}, attempts: 10);It will swallow exceptions until it hits the number of attempts you've requested, and then throw normally.
That's it, have fun.