Allow for retries in requests

[jtyoung84]

Code Ocean REST API requests will sometimes return a 429 response code when the server is overloaded. It will be helpful if the requests can be set to automatically retry in those events or other server error events.

[jtyoung84]

On second thought, it might be better to handle this user-side.

[zvikagart]

I think it should be possible to configure the requests session with a retry strategy as described here: https://oxylabs.io/blog/python-requests-retry

client = CodeOcean(...)
retry = Retry(...)
adapter = HTTPAdapter(max_retries=retry)
client.session.mount(client.domain, adapter)

[bjhardcastle]

@zvikagart that looks neat - are you proposing to modify the CodeOcean class to allow a requests session to be passed in?

[zvikagart]

What I suggested shouldn't require modifications to the package but I haven't tested it.
If you're able to open a PR then allowing to pass in a retry object to the CodeOcean client could be a nice feature.

[jtyoung84]

I think it should be possible to configure the requests session with a retry strategy as described here: https://oxylabs.io/blog/python-requests-retry

client = CodeOcean(...)
retry = Retry(...)
adapter = HTTPAdapter(max_retries=retry)
client.session.mount(client.domain, adapter)

It also requires some extra steps to work without any changes to the source code:

client = CodeOcean(...)
retry = Retry(...)
adapter = HTTPAdapter(max_retries=retry)
client.session.mount(client.domain, adapter)
client.capsules = Capsules(client.session)
client.computations = Computations(client.session)
client.data_assets = DataAssets(client.session)