Exception handling: number of retries for async executions

[gunnar1]

When setting a service task to asynchronous it looks like in case of an Exception the internal job handler will retry 3 times (?) before giving up.

• How do I configure the number of retries for async services?

• What if I do not want to retry at all?


• What if I want the retry not immediately - but manually triggered later on?

Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
Gunnar

[p4w3l]

@Team: How can we configure job execution retry count ?

[ronald_van_kuij]

In the configuration?

[p4w3l]

Yes, in configuration if possible if not - somehow else.

[bernd_ruecker]

Actually in Activiti itself that is pretty much hard coded to 3. It should be possible to change that by you with a static property:

  JobEntity.DEFAULT_RETRIES = 17;

But it is actually not that nice. In camunda fox we introduced configuration on the level of activities / flow nodes: https://app.camunda.com/confluence/display/foxUserGuide/Custom+Job+Retry+Strategy. I think that is more flexible. So that is always the proof: You can extend the behavior yourself 😉

Cheers
Bernd