Riverpod — Automatic retry

Instructions

Riverpod retries providers when their computation throws. Retry can be customized per provider or globally.

Default behavior

By default a provider is retried up to a limit (e.g. 10 times) with exponential backoff (e.g. 200ms to 6.4s). Error and ProviderException are not retried: Error indicates a bug; ProviderException means a dependency failed, so the dependent provider is not retried (the underlying one is).

Custom retry function

A retry function has signature Duration? Function(int retryCount, Object error). Return a Duration for the delay before the next retry, or null to stop.

Duration? myRetry(int retryCount, Object error) {
  if (retryCount >= 5) return null;
  if (error is ProviderException) return null;
  return Duration(milliseconds: 200 * (1 << retryCount));
}

Where to set it

• Per provider: Pass retry: myRetry when defining the provider (or @Riverpod(retry: myRetry) with codegen).
• Globally: Pass retry: myRetry to ProviderScope or ProviderContainer.

// Global
ProviderScope(retry: myRetry, child: MyApp())

// Per provider (manual)
final myProvider = Provider<int>(retry: myRetry, (ref) => 0);

Disabling retry

Return null always:

ProviderScope(retry: (retryCount, error) => null, child: MyApp())

Awaiting async providers with retry

ref.watch(myProvider.future) (or equivalent) keeps waiting until either all retries are exhausted or the provider succeeds. So await ref.watch(myProvider.future) skips intermediate failures and completes when the provider finally succeeds or gives up.