resilient-http 1.0.1

Resilience layer for Python HTTP clients (smart retries, jitter backoff, circuit breaker)

Resilient HTTP

Production‑grade resilience layer for Python HTTP clients

Smart retries, jitter backoff, and a circuit breaker with half‑open probes. Works with both requests and httpx (async).

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🚀 Install

pip install resilient-http

Development:

pip install -e .[dev]

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🍰 Quickstart (Requests)

from resilient_http.session import ResilientRequestsSession
from resilient_http.retry_policy import RetryPolicy

session = ResilientRequestsSession(retry_policy=RetryPolicy(max_attempts=4))
resp = session.get("https://httpbin.org/status/503")
print(resp.status_code)

✅ Retries on 503 / 502 / 504 / 429 ✅ Exponential backoff + jitter ✅ Stops retrying on 400/401/403/404

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⚡ Quickstart (HTTPX Async)

import httpx
from resilient_http.httpx_async import ResilientAsyncClient
from resilient_http.retry_policy import RetryPolicy

async def main():
    client = ResilientAsyncClient(retry_policy=RetryPolicy(max_attempts=3))
    response = await client.get("https://httpbin.org/status/503")
    print(response.status_code)

import asyncio; asyncio.run(main())

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✅ Features

Capability	Description
Smart retries	Status + exception aware
Backoff strategies	Full jitter / exponential
Circuit breaker	closed → open → half‑open
Idempotency‑aware	Retries only safe methods by default
Sync + Async	requests + httpx support
Pluggable	Custom retry logic/backoff hooks

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🧠 Why this exists

Production APIs fail. Networks glitch. SaaS rate‑limits you.

This project makes failures boring using proven patterns:

• AWS retry strategy (full jitter)
• Google SRE (equal jitter)
• Netflix Hystrix circuit breaker

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🧱 Design

• No monkey‑patching
• Zero global state
• Strict typing (mypy clean)
• Deterministic backoff math
• Works with chaos testing / latency injection

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🧪 Development

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📜 License

MIT © 2025 Plamen Nikolov