Azure DocumentDB .Net SDK example of executing an Async method with retry to handle RequestRateTooLargeException or HTTP 429 errors

ExecuteWithRetryExample.cs

/// <summary>
/// Execute the function with retries on throttle
/// </summary>
/// <typeparam name="V"></typeparam>
/// <param name="client"></param>
/// <param name="function"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
private static async Task<V> ExecuteWithRetries<V>(DocumentClient client, Func<Task<V>> function)
{
        TimeSpan sleepTime = TimeSpan.Zero;

        while (true)
        {
                try
                {
                    return await function();
                }
                catch (DocumentClientException de)
                {
                    if ((int)de.StatusCode != 429)
                    {
                        throw;
                    }
                    sleepTime = de.RetryAfter;
                }
                catch (AggregateException ae)
                {
                    if (!(ae.InnerException is DocumentClientException))
                    {
                        throw;
                    }

                    DocumentClientException de = (DocumentClientException)ae.InnerException;
                    if ((int)de.StatusCode != 429)
                    {
                        throw;
                    }
                    sleepTime = de.RetryAfter;
                }

                await Task.Delay(sleepTime);
        }
}
        
/// <summary>
/// Async method for inserting a single document, with retries
/// </summary>
/// <param name="student"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
private async Task InsertDocumentAsync(Student student)
{

        ResourceResponse<Document> response = await ExecuteWithRetries(client, () => client.CreateDocumentAsync(colSelfLink, student));
            
}