Retry intervals not based on an exponential backoff

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Hello!
Is it possible to set retry intervals not based on an exponential backoff? Like a slice of time.Duration or something

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Hi @algollunism, I think what you are asking for is something like this (Java sample)

.setRetryOptions(
                RetryOptions.newBuilder()
                    .setBackoffCoefficient(1)
                    .setInitialInterval(Duration.ofSeconds(60))
                    .build())

setting backoff coefficient to 1 would set retries on interval basis (in this case every 60 seconds)

3

Thank you for your answer @tihomir
I would like to set intervals manually. For example, I have an array of durations, like this one: [1h, 24h, 78h]. Is it possible to use an array of durations as retry intervals in Temporal? Perhaps there are some workarounds?

5

Currently you can only define this via RetryOptions but I think it would be a good feature to have, will bring it up to the SDK team and get back to you with their feedback.

Right now to be able to do what you requested I think you would need to use custom code logic for retries rather. With RetryOptions, we added a visualizer in docs for retry options if that helps.

6

You can implement retries using your own retry logic from the workflow code directly. The drawback is that if you do too many retries the history can grow too large.