Using @Retryable in methods define in spring bean's base class are not retried

Question

I have a spring managed bean of type B. I have @EnableREtry in a @Configuration class. When I use @Retryable on doStuff(), the method gets retried on failure as

Answer 1

@Retryable is implemented using Spring AOP.

Only external calls to retryable methods go through the proxy (which invokes the method within a RetryTemplate); internal calls within the class bypass the proxy and therefore are not retried.

You can play some tricks to get a reference to the proxy from the application context and call that, or simply use a RetryTemplate directly within your doStuff() method.