angular forever $http retry

retry.js

'use strict';
var retryForever = true;
var retryTimeout = 5000;

exports = module.exports = function ($http, $q, $timeout) {

  function httpRetry () {
    var args = arguments;
    var httpPromise = $http.apply(null, args);

    // in case there is an error
    return httpPromise.catch(function (error) {
      // re-throw in case is not an http-error or if retry is disabled
      if (!error || !error.data || !error.status || !retryForever) throw new Error(error);
      // applies to timeout extended parameters: https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/service/$timeout
      // the 3 $timeout parameters gets concatenated with original httpRetry arguments, using slice as
      // `arguments`  it's not a real Array
      return $timeout.apply(null, [httpRetry, retryTimeout, false].concat(Array.prototype.slice.call(args)));
    });
  }
  this.httpRetry = httpRetry;

};
exports.$inject = ['$http', '$q', '$timeout'];

// example usage
httpRetry({
  method: 'GET',
  url: '/apiEndpoint',
}).then(function (response) {
  resolve(response.data);
});