Retrying Operations

Calls to the Java API should be wrapped with retry logic so that their applications are resilient to transient failures that may be experienced when a node or switch fails while servicing an operation.

Requests that fail on recoverable HTTP errors are automatically retried once. A typical recoverable error occurs when the 5800 system HTTP server times out a connection that the client then tries to reuse (the client maintains a collection pool). This results in a connection failure at request time. Because this is a recoverable error, it is retried and the retry typically succeeds.