Bug #12684
[Python SDK] Retry on HTTP 5xx errors
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Description
This sounds like what #3147 was intended to address, but it's apparently not working:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./myg_runs.py", line 244, in <module>
main()
File "./myg_runs.py", line 230, in main
dump_subprojects(stats, project, SKIP_PROJECTS)
File "./myg_runs.py", line 210, in dump_subprojects
dump_pipeline_instances(stats, sp)
File "./myg_runs.py", line 182, in dump_pipeline_instances
time = dump_pipeline_instance(stats, i)
File "./myg_runs.py", line 167, in dump_pipeline_instance
dump_jobs(batchid, sample, cwl_runner['job']['components'])
File "./myg_runs.py", line 84, in dump_jobs
jobs = api.jobs().list(filters=[['uuid','=',job_uuid]]).execute()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/oauth2client/util.py", line 140, in positional_wrapper
return wrapped(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/googleapiclient/http.py", line 840, in execute
raise HttpError(resp, content, uri=self.uri)
arvados.errors.ApiError: <HttpError 502 when requesting https://e51c5.arvadosapi.com/arvados/v1/jobs?alt=json&filters=%5B%5B%22uuid%22%2C+%22%3D%22%2C+%22e51c5-8i9sb-b8od8nvombxq3h3%22%5D%5D returned "Bad Gateway">
Related issues
History
#1
Updated by Tom Morris about 2 years ago
Updated by - Related to Bug #3147: [SDKs] Python clients should automatically retry failed API and Keep requests (including timeouts), in order to survive temporary outages like server restarts and network blips. added
#2
Updated by Lucas Di Pentima about 2 years ago
Updated by It seems that the api client object already has a default retry value of 2 (https://github.com/curoverse/arvados/blob/master/sdk/python/arvados/api.py#L33), and the retry code may be missing some exception catching:
https://github.com/curoverse/arvados/blob/master/sdk/python/arvados/api.py#L69-L101
#3
Updated by Peter Amstutz about 2 years ago
Updated by - Tracker changed from Feature to Bug
#5
Updated by Tom Morris 11 months ago
The current SDK defaults are 2 retries with an initial sleep period of 2 seconds and a multiplier of 2 which translates to 3 attempts over 6 seconds (at 0, 2, 4 seconds).
Although it doesn't look like we're using it, the Google API client library has retry support built in:
https://googleapis.github.io/google-api-python-client/docs/epy/googleapiclient.http-module.html#_retry_request
https://googleapis.github.io/google-api-python-client/docs/epy/googleapiclient.http-pysrc.html#HttpRequest.execute
but their algorithm is different due to the use of randomization and a fixed base period and multiplier
sleep_time = rand() * 2 ** retry_num
The only indication as to whether retries were attempted is a debug level logging message, so I suggest we upgrade that to warning level, like the Google API client library does. Without that there's no way to tell whether the exception came on the final attempt and wasn't intended to be caught or whether it's a retryable exception that's not being caught for some reason while the retries are still in process.
