Add auto retry logic for auth expiry separate from normal failure retry

README.md

@@ -114,6 +114,8 @@ in the credentials. Detailed instructions on how to enable delegation for your d
 
 The API client can automatically retry requests for recoverable errors. To enable retries, set the `client.retries` property to
 the number of additional attempts. To avoid flooding servers, retries invovle a 1 second delay that increases on each subsequent retry.
+In the case of authentication token expiry, the API client will attempt to refresh the token and retry the failed operation - this
+is a specific exception to the retry rules.
 
 The default value for retries is 0, but will be enabled by default in future releases.
 

lib/google/api_client.rb

@@ -596,6 +596,12 @@ module Google
 
       Retriable.retriable :tries => tries, 
                           :on => [TransmissionError],
+                          :interval => lambda {|attempts| (2 ** attempts) + rand} do
+        # This 2nd level retriable only catches auth errors, and supports 1 retry, which allows
+        # auth to be re-attempted without having to retry all sorts of other failures like
+        # NotFound, etc
+        Retriable.retriable :tries => 2, 
+                            :on => [AuthorizationError],
                             :on_retry => client_error_handler(request.authorization),
                             :interval => lambda {|attempts| (2 ** attempts) + rand} do
           result = request.send(connection, true)
@@ -609,7 +615,9 @@ module Google
                 :api_method => nil
               }))
               raise RedirectError.new(result.headers['location'], result)
-          when 400...500
+            when 401
+              raise AuthorizationError.new(result.error_message || 'Invalid/Expired Authentication', result)
+            when 400, 402...500
               raise ClientError.new(result.error_message || "A client error has occurred", result)
             when 500...600
               raise ServerError.new(result.error_message || "A server error has occurred", result)
@@ -618,6 +626,7 @@ module Google
           end
         end
       end
+    end
 
     ##
     # Same as Google::APIClient#execute!, but does not raise an exception for

lib/google/api_client/errors.rb

@@ -43,6 +43,11 @@ module Google
     class ClientError < TransmissionError
     end
 
+    ##
+    # A 401 HTTP error occurred.
+    class AuthorizationError < ClientError
+    end
+
     ##
     # A 5xx class HTTP error occurred.
     class ServerError < TransmissionError