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diff --git a/vendor/github.com/hashicorp/go-retryablehttp/README.md b/vendor/github.com/hashicorp/go-retryablehttp/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ccdc7e8 --- /dev/null +++ b/vendor/github.com/hashicorp/go-retryablehttp/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +go-retryablehttp +================ + +[![Build Status](http://img.shields.io/travis/hashicorp/go-retryablehttp.svg?style=flat-square)][travis] +[![Go Documentation](http://img.shields.io/badge/go-documentation-blue.svg?style=flat-square)][godocs] + +[travis]: http://travis-ci.org/hashicorp/go-retryablehttp +[godocs]: http://godoc.org/github.com/hashicorp/go-retryablehttp + +The `retryablehttp` package provides a familiar HTTP client interface with +automatic retries and exponential backoff. It is a thin wrapper over the +standard `net/http` client library and exposes nearly the same public API. This +makes `retryablehttp` very easy to drop into existing programs. + +`retryablehttp` performs automatic retries under certain conditions. Mainly, if +an error is returned by the client (connection errors, etc.), or if a 500-range +response code is received (except 501), then a retry is invoked after a wait +period. Otherwise, the response is returned and left to the caller to +interpret. + +The main difference from `net/http` is that requests which take a request body +(POST/PUT et. al) can have the body provided in a number of ways (some more or +less efficient) that allow "rewinding" the request body if the initial request +fails so that the full request can be attempted again. See the +[godoc](http://godoc.org/github.com/hashicorp/go-retryablehttp) for more +details. + +Example Use +=========== + +Using this library should look almost identical to what you would do with +`net/http`. The most simple example of a GET request is shown below: + +```go +resp, err := retryablehttp.Get("/foo") +if err != nil { + panic(err) +} +``` + +The returned response object is an `*http.Response`, the same thing you would +usually get from `net/http`. Had the request failed one or more times, the above +call would block and retry with exponential backoff. + +For more usage and examples see the +[godoc](http://godoc.org/github.com/hashicorp/go-retryablehttp). |