[Feature] ALOpsAppCompiler: Please add automatic retry for AL Language VSIX download on 503 errors #911
Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
We run weekend test pipelines that validate all our projects against the upcoming NextMinor and NextMajor versions to detect breaking changes in our solutions and extensions. A small number of these runs fail with a 503 Service Unavailable error when attempting to fetch the AL Language Extension VSIX from the Marketplace. When we manually rerun the same step, it succeeds on the second attempt every time.
*** Fetching PRERELEASE VSIX from Marketplace
##[error]Response status code does not indicate success: 503 (Service Unavailable).
Describe the solution you'd like
It would be very helpful if ALOps could automatically retry downloading the VSIX after a short delay (for example, 30 seconds) when a transient error like HTTP 503 occurs. This would make the pipelines more robust against temporary rate limits or short outages and avoid unnecessary failed runs.
Describe alternatives you've considered
At the moment, we don’t have a good alternative. We are manually rerunning the affected pipeline runs, which is time-consuming and not scalable.
Additional context
Log:
##[section]Starting: Compile MainApp
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Task : ALOps App Compiler
Description : Compile AL Extension(s) for Business Central
Version : 2.0.9825
Author : Hodor
Help : Compile Business Central extension(s) from AL code.
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*** Importing required ALOps-Functions
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artifactversion
artifacttype Sandbox
artifactcountry de
versionselect NextMinor
updateruntime
alternativeartifacturl https://bcinsider-fvh2ekdjecfjd6gk.b02.azurefd.net/sandbox/27.3.43689…
alternativevsixurl PRERELEASE
alsourcepath C:\agent\_work\6025\s\MainApp
ruleset
suppresswarnings KEEP
appversiontemplate ?.?.*.0
updatebuildnumber True
appfilenametemplate %APP_PUBLISHER%_%APP_NAME%_%APP_VERSION%_%BC_TYPE%_%BC_VERSION%_%BC_C…
alcodeanalyzer AppSourceCop,CodeCop,PerTenantExtensionCop,UICop,BusinessCentral.Lint…
ignorepragmas
enable_external_rulesets False
showmycode Keep
resourceexposurepolicy_allowdebugging Keep
resourceexposurepolicy_allowdownloadingsource Keep
resourceexposurepolicy_includesourceinsymbolfile Keep
internalsvisibleto Keep
preprocessorsymbols
generatereportlayouts False
applicationinsightskey
alcachepath C:\agent\_work\6025\s
publishartifact False
publishxlif False
failonwarnings False
failonany False
storageaccount
sastoken
printappmanifest True
outputalclogs True
additionalprobingpaths
allowed_publisher_names
allowed_publisher_names_separator ,
accept_insider_eula True
track_source_build_metadata True
alc_continuebuildonerror False
alc_errorlog False
pwsh True
True
*** For documentation, please visit : https://www.alops.be/documentation
*** Importing required Task-Functions
*** Artifact Type : [Sandbox]
*** Artifact Version: []
*** Artifact Country: [de]
*** AL Source Path : [C:\agent\_work\6025\s\MainApp]
*** AL Cache Path : [C:\agent\_work\6025\s]
*** Fetching PRERELEASE VSIX from Marketplace
##[error]Response status code does not indicate success: 503 (Service Unavailable).
*** PWSH Run Completed: 1
##[section]Finishing: Compile MainApp