custom extension method polly

[FabioMarturanoJr]

Hi,
I trying to create my on extension method to policy, is this possible ?
Because I'm failing miserably

using the extension

creating

[martincostello]

You can’t write extension methods for the type statically, only an instance of that type.

This won’t work:

Policy.MyExtensionMethod();

This will:

var myPolicy = ...;
myPolicy.MyExtensionMethod();

You’ll need to either start from a custom static class:

var policy = MyPolicy.HandleAndRetry(...);

Or extend the policy builder and extend from the second line of what you’re trying to do in your extension method.

[FabioMarturanoJr]

it worked, creating the extension method from the PolicyBuilder,
thank you very much :)

[peter-csala]

As a side-note

if (policyResult.FinalException != null)
   throw policyResult.FinalException;

return policyResult;

IMHO it does not make too much sense. If the execution fails then it will throw an exception. If it succeeds then you have to unwrap the result from the PolicyResult.

I would suggest to simply prefer ExecuteAsync over ExecuteAndCaptureAsync in this particular case.