I could be wrong, but, wouldn't it make sense that if your service is
failing continuously then perhaps something is wrong with the service?
I would imagine that perhaps resilience in the design of the service
might be the better route?
On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 6:22 PM Nicolas Malin <nicolas.ma...@nereide.fr> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On a customer site, we have huge services that call different rest api
> to collect information
> To increase the velocity we run all them by persistence asynchrone then
> the job pooler manage them with available resources.
>
> The problem is, when a call failed and the service threw an error, the
> service engine reschedule it, ... and it failed, rescheduled, failed,
> rescheduled, failed ... with beautiful result to overload your pool with
> zombie services.
>
> The solution is easy, set on your service definition attribute max-retry
> to 0 (or 1, if you want one retry) but I didn't understand why we have
> this configuration to reschedule indefinitely a service if it is in error.
>
> This configuration exists before apache migration so I'd happy to have
> your vision about this.
> From my view, I'm in favor to set max retry to 0 by default and left
> the developer set him self when he wants that a service restart after a
> failure.
>
> Easy change :
> Index:
> framework/service/src/main/java/org/apache/ofbiz/service/job/PersistedServiceJob.java
>
> @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@
> this.jobValue = jobValue;
> Timestamp storedDate = jobValue.getTimestamp("runTime");
> this.startTime = storedDate.getTime();
> - this.maxRetry = jobValue.get("maxRetry") != null ?
> jobValue.getLong("maxRetry") : -1;
> + this.maxRetry = jobValue.get("maxRetry") != null ?
> jobValue.getLong("maxRetry") : 0;
>
> Nicolas
>
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