Removed redundant retry logic

batchconsumer/writer.go

@@ -67,35 +67,6 @@ func (b *batchedWriter) Initialize(shardID string, checkpointer kcl.Checkpointer
 	return nil
 }
 
-// handleCheckpointError returns true if checkout should be tried again.  Returns false otherwise.
-func (b *batchedWriter) handleCheckpointError(err error) bool {
-	if err == nil {
-		return false
-	}
-
-	cperr, ok := err.(kcl.CheckpointError)
-	if !ok {
-		b.log.ErrorD("unknown-checkpoint-error", kv.M{"msg": err.Error(), "shard-id": b.shardID})
-		return true
-	}
-
-	switch cperr.Error() {
-	case "ShutdownException": // Skips checkpointing
-		b.log.ErrorD("shutdown-checkpoint-exception", kv.M{
-			"msg": err.Error(), "shard-id": b.shardID,
-		})
-		return false
-	case "ThrottlingException":
-		b.log.ErrorD("checkpoint-throttle", kv.M{"shard-id": b.shardID})
-	case "InvalidStateException":
-		b.log.ErrorD("invalid-checkpoint-state", kv.M{"shard-id": b.shardID})
-	default:
-		b.log.ErrorD("checkpoint-error", kv.M{"shard-id": b.shardID, "msg": err})
-	}
-
-	return true
-}
-
 func (b *batchedWriter) startCheckpointListener(
 	checkpointer kcl.Checkpointer, checkpointMsg <-chan kcl.SequencePair,
 	shutdown <-chan struct{},
@@ -124,23 +95,12 @@ func (b *batchedWriter) startCheckpointListener(
 				}
 			}
 
-			retry := true
-			for n := 0; retry && !pair.IsEmpty() && n < b.config.CheckpointRetries+1; n++ {
-				err := checkpointer.Checkpoint(seq, 5)
-				if err == nil { // Successfully checkpointed!
+			if !pair.IsEmpty() {
+				err := checkpointer.Checkpoint(pair, b.config.CheckpointRetries)
+				if err != nil {
+					b.log.ErrorD("checkpoint-err", kv.M{"msg": err.Error(), "shard-id": b.shardID})
+				} else {
 					lastCheckpoint = time.Now()
-					break
-				}
-
-				retry = b.handleCheckpointError(err)
-
-				if n == b.config.CheckpointRetries {
-					b.log.ErrorD("checkpoint-retries", kv.M{"attempts": b.config.CheckpointRetries})
-					retry = false
-				}
-
-				if retry {
-					time.Sleep(b.config.CheckpointRetrySleep)
 				}
 			}