Rxjs Retry with Delay function

delay() is used to introduce a delay between events emitted by the observable. But the observable never emits any event. It just errors immediately.

What you’re looking for is retryWhen(), which allows deciding after how long to retry:

RxJS 5:

  .retryWhen(errors => errors.delay(1000).take(10))

RxJS 6:

import { retryWhen, delay, take } from 'rxjs/operators'
someFunction().pipe(
  // ...
  retryWhen(errors => errors.pipe(delay(1000), take(10)))
)

This will complete the whole observable after 10 attempts. If you want to error the whole observable after 10 attempts, the observable returned by the retryWhen callback must throw:

RxJS 5:

  .retryWhen(errors => errors.delay(1000).take(10).concat(Observable.throw()))

RxJS 6:

import { retryWhen, delay, take, concatMap, throwError } from 'rxjs/operators'
someFunction().pipe(
  // ...
  retryWhen(errors => errors.pipe(delay(1000), take(10), concatMap(throwError)))
)

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