Retry

Description

Retry is a container which executes a single nested task until either: there is no failure; or: its retrycount has been exceeded. If this happens a BuildException is thrown. Since Apache Ant 1.7.1

Parameters

Attribute	Description	Required
retrycount	number of times to attempt to execute the nested task	Yes
retrydelay	number of milliseconds to wait between retry attempts task. Since Apache Ant 1.8.3	No, defaults to no delay

Any valid Ant task may be embedded within the retry task.

Example

<retry retrycount="3">
  <get src="http://www.unreliable-server.com/unreliable.tar.gz" 
       dest="/home/retry/unreliable.tar.gz" />
</retry>

This example shows how to use <retry> to wrap a task which must interact with an unreliable network resource.