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authorMax Wittig <max.wittig@siemens.com>2019-01-13 12:01:07 +0100
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2019-01-13 12:01:07 +0100
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Merge pull request #678 from appian/backoff-requests
Fix missing "Retry-After" header and fix integration tests
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@@ -299,7 +299,9 @@ Rate limits
python-gitlab obeys the rate limit of the GitLab server by default. On
receiving a 429 response (Too Many Requests), python-gitlab sleeps for the
-amount of time in the Retry-After header that GitLab sends back.
+amount of time in the Retry-After header that GitLab sends back. If GitLab
+does not return a response with the Retry-After header, python-gitlab will
+perform an exponential backoff.
If you don't want to wait, you can disable the rate-limiting feature, by
supplying the ``obey_rate_limit`` argument.
@@ -312,6 +314,18 @@ supplying the ``obey_rate_limit`` argument.
gl = gitlab.gitlab(url, token, api_version=4)
gl.projects.list(all=True, obey_rate_limit=False)
+If you do not disable the rate-limiting feature, you can supply a custom value
+for ``max_retries``; by default, this is set to 10. To retry without bound when
+throttled, you can set this parameter to -1. This parameter is ignored if
+``obey_rate_limit`` is set to ``False``.
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+ import gitlab
+ import requests
+
+ gl = gitlab.gitlab(url, token, api_version=4)
+ gl.projects.list(all=True, max_retries=12)
.. warning::