Retry an email task

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himanshu_agarwa

Hi Team,

I have a requirement where I have an email task and I want it to retry for 5 times until it throws some exception (may be due to some network issue). If after 5 times also, we get an exception than continue the flow as it was supposed to.

I have a sprint boot app with activiti dependency

So, can you pls answer below queries
1. how can I change the default retry count from 3 to 5?
2. how can I get number of retries remaining for a particular job in email executor (Java Delegate)

If I am able to get crack both these conditions than I can append try catch in email task and on reaching the threshold, I can catch the exception and continue the flow.

gdharley

The retry count for both Job and Timer threads is actually hard coded in the JobEntity.java class

  public static final int DEFAULT_RETRIES = 3;

You can change it here and recompile the engine.
In order to check the number of retries remaining, you can use the managementService.createJobQuery() to retrieve a list of jobs. The retry count is an exposed parameter in the returned list.

Greg

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