Supertest: Enhancement: add support for .retry(n)

[gollygeewizard]

In a perfect world, there would be no ECONREST or ENOTFOUND, or 504, but in the real-world, especially when performing functional/integration tests while another team might be running load tests on a shared test environment, it would be really helpful to not bail at the first sign of trouble.

This enhancement request is for the addition of a '.retry(n)' request option.

i.e.

request(http://mydomain.com)
    .post('something_wonderful')
    .set('User-Agent', 'tester-testtown-testington')
    .send(data)
    .retry(3)
    .end(function(error, res) {

      if (error) throw error;
      callback(null, res);
    });

[kristerkari]

Yes, definitely would like to see this.

Related: https://github.com/segmentio/superagent-retry/issues/8

[kristerkari]

Actually getting it to work is quite easy by using https://github.com/segmentio/superagent-retry.

All that is needed to add .retry(n) support to Supertest is:

npm install superagent-retry --save

And change agent.js from:

/**
 * Module dependencies.
 */

var Agent = require('superagent').agent
    , methods = require('methods')
    , http = require('http')
    , Test = require('./test');

to:

/**
 * Module dependencies.
 */

var superagent = require('superagent')
  , Agent = superagent.agent
  , methods = require('methods')
  , http = require('http')
  , Test = require('./test');

  require('superagent-retry')(superagent);

But I don't know if superagent-retry should be included in Supertest by default or to be made available for it as an optional feature.

[kristerkari]

Actually, it would be nice Supertest allowed Superagent plugins to be set up by the user. I'm not sure if that can currently be done without changes to Supertest code.

[thom-nic]

I'm actually interested in @kristerkari's last comment - I want to use supertest with superagent-prefix so that my tests don't keep repeating a common portion of the URL path.

[eexit]

Hello,

Any update on this ticket?

Thanks,

[zabawaba99]

Quick note - I was able to get plugins to work by requiring superagent beforehand and applying the plugins before requiring supertest

const superagent = require('superagent');
require('superagent-retry')(superagent);

const supertest = require('supertest');

[pszabop]

@zabawaba99 alas this workaround does not work for the module superagent-use. Which is the module I need. Ugh.

[nhnicwaller]

Was this issue closed because there are no plans to add retry support for supertest?