From 2c476fded6167e8619a691db148ae16e6d6efb79 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam Williamson <awilliam@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2023 10:18:47 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Add a retry loop to fifloader

load_templates often fails for no good reason - see
https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/121378 . This makes
fifloader retry 20 times on failure to mitigate the issue.

Signed-off-by: Adam Williamson <awilliam@redhat.com>
---
 fifloader.py | 12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fifloader.py b/fifloader.py
index de47a948..ea3ac0e1 100755
--- a/fifloader.py
+++ b/fifloader.py
@@ -340,7 +340,17 @@ def run(args):
         if args.update:
             loadargs.append('--update')
         loadargs.append('-')
-        subprocess.run(loadargs, input=json.dumps(out), text=True, check=True)
+        tries = 20
+        while True:
+            ret = subprocess.run(loadargs, input=json.dumps(out), text=True, check=True)
+            if ret.returncode:
+                if tries:
+                    print(f"loader failed! retrying ({tries} attempts remaining)")
+                    tries -= 1
+                else:
+                    sys.exit("loader failed and all retries exhausted!")
+            else:
+                break
 
 def main():
     """Main loop."""