I think this would be a great way to allow customers to easily know if an error was transient and able to be retried or not.
Dave On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 4:06 AM Stephen Mallette <spmalle...@gmail.com> wrote: > I created this issue recently: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TINKERPOP-2517 > > which discusses adding a new response status code that would let users know > when it is a good idea to consider a retry of a request. Graph providers > could use this code to provide a hint when an error is likely resolvable > with time. Usually, such errors are related to locking on transactions or > some similar sort of issue. Currently users need to parse error messages to > determine when best to retry their requests which isn't so nice. > > To make this new code easy to use for providers we could provide a specific > TemporaryException that could be thrown/extended or i suppose a heavier > approach would be to offer some kind of exception mapping that providers > could supply to take their custom exceptions and convert them to this form. > Not sure which we would do, but the main point would be to provide the code > itself in the protocol itself so that drivers can begin to pick it up. > > I think we could add "SERVER_ERROR_TEMPORARY 596" for this purpose. I'd > imagine it would be safe to even add it to 3.4.11. Thoughts? >
