I don't know if I'm looking in the wrong place, but I cannot find a single paragraph in the WebClient docs mentioning the retry functionality.
While there are some examples in the community, I have not been able to find any examples on how to handle retries for WebClientRequestException which I believe was introduced 5.3, and related exceptions like ReadTimeoutException.
I have posted a question related to this on stackoverflow, but I think it's an issue that there are no official docs whatsoever related to retry (unless I'm looking in the wrong place...)
Comment From: snicoll
Please don't post the same thing in two places. Give the SO question a chance to get replies and we can follow-up here if necessary.
Comment From: dan-lind
I did not post the same thing twice. I posted my question on SO, and created this issue to highlight the fact that there is no official documentation whatsoever on how the WebClient retry mechanism works.
Comment From: snicoll
You asked a question 10h ago with no indication whatsoever you are looking for support elsewhere. As I've said, let's give a chance for your question to be processed and we can adapt if necessary.
Comment From: snicoll
retryWhen is an operator available, for instance, on Mono and is part of Project Reactor so I don't think we should be documenting that here. That said, I think it is worth reconsidering to see at least if there is something we need to double check with regards to WebClientRequestException.
WDYT @rstoyanchev?