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CircleCI Orb allowing to retry jobs failing with certain pattern
# This code is licensed from CircleCI to the user under the MIT license. See
# https://circleci.com/orbs/registry/licensing for details.
version: 2.1
description: Run commands with retry
commands:
run-with-retry:
description: Run command with retry
parameters:
command:
description: Command to run
type: string
pattern:
description: Pattern on which to retry
type: string
retry-count:
description: Number of retries
type: integer
default: 3
sleep:
description: Wait duration until next retry
type: integer
default: 5
steps:
- run: |
retry() {
PATTERN=<< parameters.pattern >>
MAX_RETRY=<< parameters.retry-count >>
error=""
n=0
until [ $n -ge $MAX_RETRY ]; do
error=$( cmd "$@" 2>&1 >/dev/null )
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then; break; fi
if [[ ! $error =~ $PATTERN ]]; then; break; fi
n=$[$n+1]
sleep << parameters.sleep >>
done
if [ $n -ge $MAX_RETRY ]; then
echo "failed: ${@}" >&2
echo "with error: $error" >&2
exit 1
fi
}
retry << parameters.command >>
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mpushkin commented May 4, 2022

Hi, it looks like if there is an error that doesn't match the pattern, it will quit the retry loop, but then it won't report this as failure because number of max retries wasn't reached.
Looks like a bug to me, what do you think ?

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