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Bronze Contributor

Apr 19, 2018

Inconsistent behavior in using Taxonomy API

We're currently developing a solution that involves several types of Taxonomy operations: Loading Terms Creating Terms (if not exist) Creating Term Labels (if not exist) Reusing Terms (if n...

Gabriel Smoljar

Brass Contributor

Oct 25, 2018

I implemented the follow extension to get around the problem.

public static async Task ExecuteQueryRetry(this ClientContext clientContext, int delaySeconds = 2)
{
 while (delaySeconds < 30)
 {
   try
   {
     clientContext.ExecuteQuery();
     return;
   }
   catch (ServerException ex)
   {
     var retry = ex.Message != null ?
     ex.Message.Contains("MetadataWebService.svc")
     || ex.Message.Contains("GetDefaultSiteCollectionTermStore") : false;

     if (!retry)
     {
       throw;
     }

     var delay = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(delaySeconds);
     await Task.Delay(delay);

     delaySeconds = delaySeconds * 2;
   }
 }

 throw new TimeoutException("Stopped retrying ExecuteQuery after 30 seconds.");
}