Retrying Server Errors on GET requests

Author: szczeles

pyactiveresource/connection.py

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 import socket
 import sys
 import six
+import backoff
 from six.moves import urllib
 from pyactiveresource import formats
 
@@ -317,6 +318,7 @@ def _urlopen(self, request):
         else:
           return urllib.request.urlopen(request)
 
+    @backoff.on_exception(backoff.expo, ServerError)
     def get(self, path, headers=None):
         """Perform an HTTP get request.
 

setup.py

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
       test_suite='test',
       install_requires=[
           'six',
+          'backoff'
       ],
       tests_require=[
           python_dateutils_version,