RestartSink.withBackoff

Wrap the given SinkSink with a SinkSink that will restart it when it fails or complete using an exponential backoff.

Error handling

Signature

RestartSink.withBackoffRestartSink.withBackoff

Description

Wrap the given SinkSink with a SinkSink that will restart it when it completes or fails using exponential backoff. The backoff resets back to minBackoff if there hasn’t been a restart within maxRestartsWithin (which defaults to minBackoff).

This SinkSink will not cancel as long as maxRestarts is not reached, since cancellation by the wrapped SinkSink is handled by restarting it. The wrapped SinkSink can however be completed by feeding a completion or error into this SinkSink. When that happens, the SinkSink, if currently running, will terminate and will not be restarted. This can be triggered simply by the upstream completing, or externally by introducing a KillSwitch right before this SinkSink in the graph.

The restart process is inherently lossy, since there is no coordination between cancelling and the sending of messages. When the wrapped SinkSink does cancel, this SinkSink will backpressure, however any elements already sent may have been lost.

This uses the same exponential backoff algorithm as BackoffOptsBackoffOpts.

Reactive Streams semantics

backpressures during backoff and when the wrapped sink backpressures

completes when upstream completes or when maxRestarts are reached within the given time limit