Rebus with secondLevelRetriesEnabled enable retries doesn't stop retrying on IFailed handler

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I'm having an issue with rebus (that I'm sure it's me the problem) and here's the issue: I have second level retries enabled. In the normal handler I throw a FailFastException In the IFailed handler I got the message and I do a kind of "delayed" retry (I defer 10 times with a delay of 30s) After all 10 re-tries, I want to finish (aka send to error queue) and for this I'm just throwing a new exception and it "kinda" works.

The issue is in the last step, when I throw the last exception, rebus still retries 5 times (default). So actually I'm retrying 10 times (defer) + 5 times(rebus default fast retry).

Is there any way I can only do the 10 (deferred) times? I can forward to the dead letter queue manually but... it seems hacky.

Also, I use fleet manager, does forwarding the message to the error queue means the message will also be in the fleet manager?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 17 '23 at 13:08

Is there any way I can only do the 10 (deferred) times? I can forward to the dead letter queue manually but... it seems hacky.

Yes, but it requires a little bit of manual work you can do something like this in your 2nd level retry handler:

try
{
    await TrySomethingAlternativeAsync();
}
catch(Exception exception) 
{
    // bummer, it still fails!
    // 
    // just deadletter the message now then
    await bus.Advanced.TrandportMessage.Deadletter(exception);
}

Also, I use fleet manager, does forwarding the message to the error queue means the message will also be in the fleet manager?

Yes

Rebus with secondLevelRetriesEnabled enable retries doesn't stop retrying on IFailed handler

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