Cleanest way to write retry logic?

Question

Occasionally I have a need to retry an operation several times before giving up. My code is like:

int retries = 3;
while(true) {
  try {
    DoSomething();
         


        

Answer 1

I'm a fan of recursion and extension methods, so here are my two cents:

public static void InvokeWithRetries(this Action @this, ushort numberOfRetries)
{
    try
    {
        @this();
    }
    catch
    {
        if (numberOfRetries == 0)
            throw;

        InvokeWithRetries(@this, --numberOfRetries);
    }
}