Delay Only When Needed for Retry

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Pete Staples

• December 04, 2024 00:12
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Essentially, what I want to do is try a command, if it works then great move on, but if it fails, wait a bit before retrying again. As it stands, it's possible to write a section that has two steps, a delay and a command, and then set that section to have retries, but I'm hoping that there's a way to do this without waiting before the first attempt, only waiting before the second and all subsequent attempts.

 

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  Pete Staples

  • December 04, 2024 00:07

  Something like this should work:

  - ident: SETUP
    steps:
      - command: define DELAY 1
  - ident: RETRIABLE
    retry: 3
    steps:
      # Wait 1ms on first attempt, 1000ms on subsequent events
      - command: sleepms %DELAY%
      - command: define DELAY 1000
      - command: operator "visual inspection"

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