Question

I’m stuck with this requirement that I need to try X times before calling it quits.

I personally prefer to fail and notify immediately but hey…

So…

for retries
    try
        connect
        exececute sql
        process sql
        commit
        if all is good break loop
    catch
        rollback

With what exceptions should you retry vs not retry? On a connection drop I figure yes. But if everything is an SQLException how do you differentiate when you should and not? Or should I just retry period?

Answer 1

Have a count variable. It doesn’t make sense to loop through there for lifelong. Have certain tries count. If all is good (or) reached count, break loop. This is what I prefer.