Google-api-ruby-client: Make the retry mechanism more configurable

[Richard-Degenne]

Hi,

As you can see here, it is currently possible to configure the number of retries through request options, but not other things such as the retry intervals, which are hard-coded, or other retriable options.

Can something be done about that, or is it a policy to have those magic numbers as intervals?

[kented]

While uploading large files to Youtube I was receiving 'Google::Apis::TransmissionError: execution expired'. After some digging I learned that retriable has a default max_elapsed_time of 15 minutes. I was able to adjust this configuration globally to solve my problem.

Would be great to have some sort of documentation for this underlying mechanism and/or expose some level of configuration directly. The context feature of retriable might be useful for this.

[snirbenyosef]

@kented
where did you configure the max_elapsed_time ?
i׳m having the same problem