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Retry

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Description

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Retry is a container task - it can contain an Ant task. The nested +task is executed, if an error occurs, the task can be executed again without +the build failing. The amount of times that the nested task can be 'retried' +is configurable.

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Parameters

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AttributeDescriptionRequired
retrycountnumber of times to attempt to execute the nested taskYes
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Any valid Ant task may be embedded within the retry task.

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Example

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+<retry retrycount="3">
+  <get src="http://www.unreliable-server.com/unreliable.tar.gz" 
+  		dest="/home/retry/unreliable.tar.gz"/>
+</retry>
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This example shows how to use <retry> to wrap a task which must interact with an unreliable network resource.

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