Question

I have a drive application that requests all files that aren’t trashed. But sometimes it throws a IOexception with read timeout. Is there a way to avoid this?

This is the error I get:

An error occurred: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out

Maybe my exponential backoff is implemented wrong.

Here’s the code I use to get the files:

private static List<File> retrieveAllNoTrashFiles(Drive service) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
    List<File> result = new ArrayList<File>();
    Files.List request = service.files().list().setQ("trashed = false").setMaxResults(1000);
    do {
        try {
            FileList files =executeRequest(service,request);
            result.addAll(files.getItems());
            request.setPageToken(files.getNextPageToken());
        } catch (IOException e) {       //here I sometimes get the read timeout
            System.out.println("An error occurred: " + e);
            request.setPageToken(null);
        }
    } while (request.getPageToken() != null
            && request.getPageToken().length() > 0);

    return result;
}

private static FileList executeRequest(Drive service,Files.List request) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
    Random randomGenerator = new Random();
    for (int n = 0; n < 5; ++n) {
        try {
            return(request.execute());
        } catch (GoogleJsonResponseException e) {
            if (e.getDetails().getCode() == 403
                    && (e.getDetails().getErrors().get(0).getReason().equals("rateLimitExceeded")
                    || e.getDetails().getErrors().get(0).getReason().equals("userRateLimitExceeded"))) {
                // Apply exponential backoff.
                Thread.sleep((1 << n) * 1000 + randomGenerator.nextInt(1001));
            } 
             //else {
                // Other error, re-throw.
               // throw e;
           // }
        }
    }catch(SocketTimeoutException e){
            Thread.sleep((1 << n) * 1000 + randomGenerator.nextInt(1001));
        }
    System.err.println("There has been an error, the request never succeeded.");
    return null;
}

Answer 1

Your exponential backoff triggers only when you catch a GoogleJsonException, which you dont get when you have a timeout. You can catch SocketTimeoutException also in your exponential backoff