Fault Tolerance 4.1

MicroProfile Fault Tolerance 2.1 was released just 2 weeks ago, and it didn’t take us long to fully implement. Today, we announce availability of SmallRye Fault Tolerance 4.1, a compliant implementation of MicroProfile Fault Tolerance 2.1. Here’s a list of the important changes in the specification:

  • The @Retry.retryOn and abortOn attributes no longer ignore Throwable.class, to be consistent with other annotations that also specify exceptions. Only @Retry had a requirement that Throwable is to be ignored.

  • Related to the previous item is that the specification now admits that throwing custom Throwables results in nonportable behavior. Fortunately, the use cases for throwing something that isn’t an Exception (nor an Error) should be very rare.

  • Also, the behavior was previously unspecified when the @Retry.retryOn and abortOn attributes overlap. It is now specified that the abortOn attribute "wins" over retryOn.

  • The @CircuitBreaker.skipOn attribute was added, to complement the existing failOn attribute. When the attributes overlap, skipOn "wins" over failOn.

  • The @Fallback.applyOn and skipOn attributes were also added. When they overlap, skipOn "wins" over applyOn.

  • It is now specified that during the @Asynchronous method execution, the CDI request context is always active. The specification previously did not require that.

This release is also aligned with other SmallRye projects (Config and Metrics) that also recently released a new version in preparation of MicroProfile 3.3 platform release.

Enjoy the new SmallRye Fault Tolerance, it is coming in the next Quarkus release!

SmallRye is open source under Apache Software License 2.0.

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