ansible-playbooks/general#66 Back to parallel sanity execution and temporarily...

ansible-playbooks/general#66 Back to parallel sanity execution and temporarily retry issue creation if required

gitlab_issue.py

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 RETURN = '''# '''
 
 import datetime
+import random
 try:
     import gitlab
     HAS_GITLAB_PACKAGE = True
@@ -177,9 +178,9 @@ def main():
     # or with login_token
     try:
         if use_credentials:
-            git = gitlab.Gitlab(server_url, email=login_user, password=login_password, ssl_verify=verify_ssl)
+            git = gitlab.Gitlab(server_url, email=login_user, password=login_password, ssl_verify=verify_ssl) # type: gitlab
         else:
-            git = gitlab.Gitlab(server_url, login_token, ssl_verify=verify_ssl)
+            git = gitlab.Gitlab(server_url, login_token, ssl_verify=verify_ssl) # type: gitlab
         git.auth()
     except Exception, e:
         module.fail_json(msg="Failed to connect to Gitlab server: %s " % e)
@@ -245,7 +246,17 @@ def main():
                  "labels": ','.join(labels)
                  }
 
-    issue = git.project_issues.create(arguments, project_id=project.pid)
+    # Create issue and retry up to 3 times if that fails
+    issue = False
+    delay = random.randint(0, 200) / 100
+    retries = 3
+    while retries > 0:
+        retries -= 1
+        time.sleep(delay)
+        issue = git.project_issues.create(arguments, project_id=project.pid)
+        if issue:
+            retries = 0
+
     if issue:
         if close:
             issue.state_event = 'close'