Question

I’ve implemented a generic repository and was wondering if there is a smart way to implement a retry logic in case of a deadlock exception?

The approach should be the same for all repository methods. So is there anyway I can avoid writing ‘try/catch – call method again with retry-count’, in every single method?

Any suggetsion are welcome.

A bit of my Repository code:

public class GenericRepository : IRepository
{
    private ObjectContext _context;

    public List<TEntity> ExecuteStoreQuery<TEntity>(string commandText, params object[] parameters) where TEntity : class
    {
        List<TEntity> myList = new List<TEntity>();

        var groupData = _context.ExecuteStoreQuery<TEntity>(commandText, parameters);

        return myList;
    }


    public IQueryable<TEntity> GetQuery<TEntity>() where TEntity : class
    {          
        var entityName = GetEntityName<TEntity>();
        return _context.CreateQuery<TEntity>(entityName);
    }

    public IEnumerable<TEntity> GetAll<TEntity>() where TEntity : class
    {
        return GetQuery<TEntity>().AsEnumerable();
    }

EDIT:

1.Solution:

Modified slightly from chris.house.00‘s solution

 public static T DeadlockRetryHelper<T>(Func<T> repositoryMethod, int maxRetries)
    {
        var retryCount = 0;

        while (retryCount < maxRetries)
        {
            try
            {
                return repositoryMethod();
            }
            catch (System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException ex)
            {
                if (ex.Number == 1205)// Deadlock                         
                    retryCount++;
                else
                    throw;                   
            }
        }
        return default(T);
    }

And you call it like this:

    public TEntity FirstOrDefault<TEntity>(Expression<Func<TEntity, bool>> predicate) where TEntity : class
    {
        return RetryUtility.DeadlockRetryHelper<TEntity>( () =>p_FirstOrDefault<TEntity>(predicate), 3);
    }

    protected TEntity p_FirstOrDefault<TEntity>(Expression<Func<TEntity, bool>> predicate) where TEntity : class
    {
        return GetQuery<TEntity>().FirstOrDefault<TEntity>(predicate);
    }

Answer 1

How about something like this:

public T DeadlockRetryHelper<T>(Func<T> repositoryMethod, int maxRetries)
{
  int retryCount = 0;

  while (retryCount < maxRetries)
  {
    try
    {
      return repositoryMethod();
    }
    catch (SqlException e) // This example is for SQL Server, change the exception type/logic if you're using another DBMS
    {
      if (e.Number == 1205)  // SQL Server error code for deadlock
      {
        retryCount++;
      }
      else
      {
        throw;  // Not a deadlock so throw the exception
      }
      // Add some code to do whatever you want with the exception once you've exceeded the max. retries
    }
  }
}

With the above code, your retry logic is all in this method and you can just pass your repository method in as a delegate.