ky-circuit-breaker

The premise here is that I wanted to have a circuit breaker pattern that could leverage the native API of a KyInstance. There are other options available for adopting a circuit breaker pattern, however, my goal was simplicity in the sense that I wanted to pass my KyInstance via the constructor and the library do the rest.

State machine logic was adopted from albertllousas work over @ https://github.com/albertllousas/circuit-breaker-typescript and the kudos go to him for the state machine.

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Getting Started

Why to use it

If this resilience pattern does not sound familiar to you, take a look on these resources:

• Circuit breaker wikipedia
• Circuit breaker - Martin Fowler
• Release It!

Install

npm i ky-circuit-breaker

How to Use It

The below approach will protect all of the following automagically.

• ky.get
• ky.post
• ky.put
• ky.patch
• ky.head
• ky.delete

import ky from 'ky';
import { CircuitBreaker } from 'ky-circuit-breaker';

const circuitBreaker = new CircuitBreaker(ky);
// that's it, your native KyInstance functions 
// are now protected with a CircuitBreaker using the default settings.

const result = await ky.get('https://httpbin.org/get').json();
// make calls the normal way.

Promises

Let's assume you have an http call and you want to fail-fast gracefully without waiting for TCP connection timeout in case of the service eventually is not available...you can protect that individual promise with the example below:

const unprotectedPromise = () => fetch(someUrl).then(response => response.json());

Protecting it is pretty straight forward:

const circuitBreaker = new CircuitBreaker();

const protectedPromise = circuitBreaker.protectPromise(unprotectedPromise);

//normal use
protectedPromise().then(...);

Exports

CircuitStatusFlag

Enum for circuitStatus

shape:

export enum CircuitStatusFlag {
    CLOSED,
    HALF,
    OPEN
}

Custom params

CircuitBreaker(config: CircuitBreakerConfig)

Create a new instance of a circuit breaker. It accepts the following config options:

    maxFailures: number;
    timeoutLimit: number;
    hooks?: {
        beforeRequest?: { (): void }[],
        afterPromiseComplete?: { (recoveryAttempts: number, recoverySuccessful: boolean, recoveryFailed: boolean): void }[]
    }

CircuitBreakerConfig: maxFailures

Number of errors after the circuit trips to open and starts short-circuiting requests and failing-fast.

Default Value: 5

CircuitBreakerConfig: timeoutLimit

Time in milliseconds in which after tripping to open the circuit will remain failing fast.

Default Value: 5000

CircuitBreakerConfig: hooks

Hooks specific to the circuit breaker.

beforeRequest - Synonymous to ky before request hook - function callback before every request. afterPromiseComplete - function callback after every promise is complete.

Possible Usage:

import { CircuitBreaker, CircuitStatusFlag } from 'ky-circuit-breaker';

private setHttpClient(): void {
    const circuitBreakerStateHandler = (recoveryAttempts?, recoveryFailed?) => {
      if (this.circuitBreaker.circuitStatus === CircuitStatusFlag.OPEN && recoveryAttempts === this.circuitRecoveryThreshold) {
       /* Shut down the app */
        return;
      } 

      switch (this.circuitBreaker.circuitStatus) {
        case CircuitStatusFlag.CLOSED: {
          /* Handle circuit breaker closure */
           if (recoverySuccessful) {
            /* Handle recovery successful */
           }
          break;
        }
        case CircuitStatusFlag.OPEN: {
          /* Handle circuit breaker opening */
          if (recoveryFailed) {
            /* Handle recovery failure */
          }
          break;
        }
        case CircuitStatusFlag.HALF: {
          /* Handle circuit breaker half open*/
          break;
        }
        default:
          break;
      }
    };

    this.httpClient = ky.extend({
      prefixUrl,
      timeout: false,
      retry: {
        limit: 5,
        methods: ['post', 'get', 'put']
      },
    });
    this.circuitBreaker = new CircuitBreaker(this.httpClient, {
      maxFailures: 5,
      timeoutLimit: 5000,
      hooks: {
        beforeRequest: [circuitBreakerStateHandler],
        afterPromiseComplete: [circuitBreakerStateHandler]
      }
    });
  }
}