Retry failed sqlalchemy queries

Question

Every time I'm restarting mysql service, my app is receiving the following error on any query:

result = self._query(query)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pymysql/cursors.py", line 328, in _query
    conn.query(q)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pymysql/connections.py", line 516, in query
    self._affected_rows = self._read_query_result(unbuffered=unbuffered)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pymysql/connections.py", line 727, in _read_query_result
    result.read()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pymysql/connections.py", line 1066, in read
    first_packet = self.connection._read_packet()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pymysql/connections.py", line 656, in _read_packet
    packet_header = self._read_bytes(4)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pymysql/connections.py", line 702, in _read_bytes
    CR.CR_SERVER_LOST, "Lost connection to MySQL server during query")
sqlalchemy.exc.OperationalError: (pymysql.err.OperationalError) (2013, 'Lost connection to MySQL server during query') [SQL: ...] [parameters: {...}] (Background on this error at: http://sqlalche.me/e/e3q8)

Any query after that will succeed as usual.

This is just a common use case for example, in general I might want to retry any query depending on the error.

Is there any way to catch and retry the query in some low level sqlalchemy api? Doing try-except or a custom query method in my code is not reasonable as I use it too many times and its not maintainable.

Answer 1

Apparently sqlalchemy has a great option to customize the query class, which was exactly what I needed.

class implementation:

import logging
from flask_sqlalchemy import BaseQuery
from sqlalchemy.exc import OperationalError
from time import sleep

class RetryingQuery(BaseQuery):

    __retry_count__ = 3
    __retry_sleep_interval_sec__ = 0.5

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)

    def __iter__(self):
        attempts = 0
        while True:
            attempts += 1
            try:
                return super().__iter__()
            except OperationalError as ex:
                if "Lost connection to MySQL server during query" not in str(ex):
                    raise
                if attempts < self.__retry_count__:
                    logging.debug(
                        "MySQL connection lost - sleeping for %.2f sec and will retry (attempt #%d)",
                        self.__retry_sleep_interval_sec__, attempts
                    )
                    sleep(self.__retry_sleep_interval_sec__)
                    continue
                else:
                    raise

usage:

class BaseModel(Model):
    ...
    query_class = RetryingQuery
    ...

db = SQLAlchemy(model_class=BaseModel, query_class=RetryingQuery)