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

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.