Hey everyone, happy tuesday! Question for you - if I want to set a hard backoff of 30 seconds (with 2 retries) for my tap, what would the best way be to go about it? I know we have some documentation, but I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around it 😅 especially the backoff.constant function, which doesn't seem to exist Thanks!

My first question is why, but to answer your question(s)

if I want to set a hard backoff of 30 seconds (with 2 retries) for my tap, what would the best way be to go about it?

I think

def backoff_wait_generator() -> Callable[..., Generator[int, Any, None]]:
    return backoff.constant(interval=30)
def backoff_max_tries(): 
    return 2

Would do the trick

the backoff.constant function which doesn't seem to exist

Is from the

backoff

library - https://pypi.org/project/backoff/ (included as a dependency in the sdk), so

import backoff

def backoff_wait_generator() -> Callable[..., Generator[int, Any, None]]:
    return backoff.constant(interval=30)
def backoff_max_tries(): 
    return 2

Would be great if after you get this working you add it as an example to the docs!

Awesome, and this would go in your stream class? Reason I want to look into this is we're implementing an internal API and product is quite stingy about how often I can ping it, so I need to modify the backoff to suit their parameters

Awesome, and this would go in your stream class?

@Stéphane Burwash yes that would work (They all inherit from the same place so you could plop it in your

client.py

that I imagine you have if you want this for all your calls)

Reason I want to look into this is we're implementing an internal API and product is quite stingy about how often I can ping it, so I need to modify the backoff to suit their parameters

Stingy is very normal, saying wait 30 seconds and try twice isn't normal!

Just wanted to be precise in my question to make sure I got the most knowledge possible 😉 I'll probably just add an additional retry and we should be fine, but I wanted to make sure I knew how to set a hard backoff if necessary also 😄