How do I implement an adaptive retry mechanism that dynamically adjusts backoff intervals based on API response headers

Question

Can you explain how to implement an adaptive retry mechanism that dynamically adjusts backoff intervals based on the API response header?

Answer 1

In order to implement an adaptive retry mechanism that dynamically adjusts backoff intervals based on API response headers, you can refer to the following code snippet.

In the code above, we are implementing an adaptive retry mechanism for API requests. We check the Retry-After header (or default to 1 second) to dynamically adjust the wait time before retrying on specific errors like 429 or 503. If the maximum number of retries is exceeded, an exception is raised.

Hence, this is how we implement an adaptive retry mechanism that dynamically adjusts backoff intervals based on API response headers.