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Resilience Features

As of 7.0, the core Spring Framework includes common resilience features, in particular @Retryable and @ConcurrencyLimit annotations for method invocations as well as programmatic retry support.

`@Retryable`

@Retryable is an annotation that specifies retry characteristics for an individual method (with the annotation declared at the method level), or for all proxy-invoked methods in a given class hierarchy (with the annotation declared at the type level).

@Retryable
public void sendNotification() {
    this.jmsClient.destination("notifications").send(...);
}

By default, the method invocation will be retried for any exception thrown: with at most 3 retry attempts after an initial failure, and a delay of 1 second between attempts.

This can be specifically adapted for every method if necessary – for example, by narrowing the exceptions to retry:

@Retryable(MessageDeliveryException.class)
public void sendNotification() {
    this.jmsClient.destination("notifications").send(...);
}

Or for 5 retry attempts and an exponential back-off strategy with a bit of jitter:

@Retryable(
  includes = MessageDeliveryException.class,
  maxAttempts = 5,
  delay = 100,
  jitter = 10,
  multiplier = 2,
  maxDelay = 1000)
public void sendNotification() {
    this.jmsClient.destination("notifications").send(...);
}

Last but not least, @Retryable also works for reactive methods with a reactive return type, decorating the pipeline with Reactor’s retry capabilities:

@Retryable(maxAttempts = 5, delay = 100)
public Mono<Void> sendNotification() {
    return Mono.from(...); (1)
}

1	This raw `Mono` will get decorated with a retry spec.

For details on the various characteristics, see the available annotation attributes in @Retryable.

There are String variants with placeholder support available for several attributes as well, as an alternative to the specifically typed annotation attributes used in the above examples.

`@ConcurrencyLimit`

@ConcurrencyLimit is an annotation that specifies a concurrency limit for an individual method (with the annotation declared at the method level), or for all proxy-invoked methods in a given class hierarchy (with the annotation declared at the type level).

@ConcurrencyLimit(10)
public void sendNotification() {
    this.jmsClient.destination("notifications").send(...);
}

This is meant to protect the target resource from being accessed from too many threads at the same time, similar to the effect of a pool size limit for a thread pool or a connection pool that blocks access if its limit is reached.

You may optionally set the limit to 1, effectively locking access to the target bean instance:

@ConcurrencyLimit(1) (1)
public void sendNotification() {
    this.jmsClient.destination("notifications").send(...);
}

1	1 is the default, but specifying it makes the intent clearer.

Such limiting is particularly useful with Virtual Threads where there is generally no thread pool limit in place. For asynchronous tasks, this can be constrained on SimpleAsyncTaskExecutor. For synchronous invocations, this annotation provides equivalent behavior through ConcurrencyThrottleInterceptor which has been available since Spring Framework 1.0 for programmatic use with the AOP framework.

Enabling Resilient Methods

Like many of Spring’s core annotation-based features, @Retryable and @ConcurrencyLimit are designed as metadata that you can choose to honor or ignore. The most convenient way to enable processing of the resilience annotations is to declare @EnableResilientMethods on a corresponding @Configuration class.

Alternatively, these annotations can be individually enabled by defining a RetryAnnotationBeanPostProcessor or a ConcurrencyLimitBeanPostProcessor bean in the context.

Programmatic Retry Support

In contrast to @Retryable which provides a declarative approach for specifying retry semantics for methods within beans registered in the ApplicationContext, RetryTemplate provides a programmatic API for retrying arbitrary blocks of code.

Specifically, a RetryTemplate executes and potentially retries a Retryable operation based on a configured RetryPolicy.

var retryTemplate = new RetryTemplate(); (1)

retryTemplate.execute(
        () -> jmsClient.destination("notifications").send(...));

1	Implicitly uses `RetryPolicy.withDefaults()`.

By default, a retryable operation will be retried for any exception thrown: with at most 3 retry attempts after an initial failure, and a delay of 1 second between attempts.

If you only need to customize the number of retry attempts, you can use the RetryPolicy.withMaxAttempts() factory method as demonstrated below.

var retryTemplate = new RetryTemplate(RetryPolicy.withMaxAttempts(5)); (1)

retryTemplate.execute(
        () -> jmsClient.destination("notifications").send(...));

1	Explicitly uses `RetryPolicy.withMaxAttempts(5)`.

If you need to narrow the types of exceptions to retry, that can be achieved via the includes() and excludes() builder methods.

var retryPolicy = RetryPolicy.builder()
        .includes(MessageDeliveryException.class) (1)
        .excludes(...) (2)
        .build();

var retryTemplate = new RetryTemplate(retryPolicy);

retryTemplate.execute(
        () -> jmsClient.destination("notifications").send(...));

1	Specify one or more exception types to include.
2	Specify one or more exception types to exclude.

For advanced use cases, you can specify a custom Predicate<Throwable> via the predicate() method in the RetryPolicy.Builder, and the predicate will be used to determine whether to retry a failed operation based on a given Throwable – for example, by checking the cause or the message of the Throwable.

Custom predicates can be combined with includes and excludes; however, custom predicates will always be applied after includes and excludes have been applied.

The following example demonstrates how to configure a RetryPolicy with 5 retry attempts and an exponential back-off strategy with a bit of jitter.

var retryPolicy = RetryPolicy.builder()
        .includes(MessageDeliveryException.class)
        .maxAttempts(5)
        .delay(Duration.ofMillis(100))
        .jitter(Duration.ofMillis(10))
        .multiplier(2)
        .maxDelay(Duration.ofSeconds(1))
        .build();

var retryTemplate = new RetryTemplate(retryPolicy);

retryTemplate.execute(
        () -> jmsClient.destination("notifications").send(...));

A RetryListener can be registered with a RetryTemplate to react to events published during key retry phases (before a retry attempt, after a retry attempt, etc.), and you can compose multiple listeners via a CompositeRetryListener.

Although the factory methods and builder API for RetryPolicy cover most common configuration scenarios, you can implement a custom RetryPolicy for complete control over the types of exceptions that should trigger a retry as well as the BackOff strategy to use. Note that you can also configure a customized BackOff strategy via the backOff() method in the RetryPolicy.Builder.