Automatic retry settings for batch jobs has been fully released for D365 F&O with version 10.0.18 which went General Availability as of April 16 2021.
With this feature there is a new interface called BatchRetryable. This interface is quite simplistic but basically allows you to implement a new method called IsRetryable. This method will be called when the batch system encounters a transient error. This method simply returns true or false to determine if the job should retry.
The Setup
I have a Controller, Contract, Dispatcher setup. The BatchRetryable is attached to the Controller class.
When I tried attaching it to the Dispatcher class, where I actually have logic to be performed, it didn’t seem to pick up on the BatchRetryable. But it does work on the Controller level.
Next I simply return true in the IsRetryable method required for the BatchRetryable with a bit of logging to the warning section just in case.
Replicating Transient Errors in Development
My first question wasn’t really if this works but how I can test it out. Since our development environment is a self contained VM we don’t really get these errors in development. To replicate those errors I decided on throwing the transient exception randomly at the start of my batch job.
This caused me an infinite loop issue. To resolve this I stored the retries in a table and when it was over 2 I stopped throwing the error message.
Conclusion
This seems to work quite well for the time being. I haven’t been able to move this to production but I hope to update this article with the results once I am able to update our environments and move this code along.
