reconnect-rethinkdb v0.0.2

reconnect-rethinkdb

Fibonacci and exponential backoff reconnection for rethinkdb.

Usage

var rethinkdb = require('rethinkdb')
var opts = {host: 'localhost',port: 28015}
var reconnect = require('reconnect-rethinkdb')(rethinkdb, opts)

reconnect.on('connect', function(conn){
	console.log('connected!')
}).on('disconnect', function(err){
    /*err will be passed in case of error*/
	console.log('disconnected!', err)
}).on('reconnect', function(number, delay){
	console.log('reconnecting in ', delay, 'ms.', 'total retries so far is ', number)
}).on('fail', function(){
    /*triggered if failAfter opts is set*/
	console.log('given up trying to connect!')
}).connect(function(conn){
    /*do something with with your connection*/
	console.log('connected cb') 
})

Methods

connect

Keeps reconnecting until successful

disconnect

Disconnects connection and stops reconnect attempts

Options

Constructor accepts the same rethinkdb connect() options with an addition of the following optional options:

type

fibonacci or exponential, defaults to fibonacci

initialDelay

Defaults to 100ms

maxDelay

Defaults to 1000ms

failAfter

Maximum number of backoffs before the fail event gets emitted, turned off by default.

Installation

npm install reconnect-rethinkdb

License

(MIT)

Copyright (c) 2013 Ayman Mackouly <ayman.mackouly@gmail.com>

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