Now I found that the FeignClient uses the default retryer which retries the failed requests on its own.
I think this is not desired, because it overrules the configuration for the ribbon loadbalancer.
Maybe this is not a feature, is it?
Lutz

Perhaps the default should be an empty Retryer.

As a workaround, you can create a Retryer bean in a Feign Client Configuration.

Workaround works like a charm:

  @Bean
  public Retryer retryer() {
    return new Retryer() {

      @Override
      public void continueOrPropagate(RetryableException e) {
        throw e;
      }

      @Override
      public Retryer clone() {
        return this;
      }
    };
  }

There's a NEVER_RETRY implementation so you can do

@Bean public Retryer retryer() { return Retryer.NEVER_RETRY; }

We can close this issue because all this retry logic was simplified in the latest Camden SRs and and Dalston snapshots and there is only one level of retry now.

Can you explain what you mean by 'there is only one level of retry now'?

We've eliminated the feign retry with our ribbon retry