Set the Number of Reconnect Attempts

Applications can set the maximum reconnect attempts per server. This includes the server provided to the client's connect call, as well as the server the client discovered through another server. Once reconnect to a server fails the specified amount of times in a row, it will be removed from the connect list. After a successful reconnect to a server, the client will reset that server's failed reconnect attempt count. If a server was removed from the connect list, it can be rediscovered on connect. This effectively resets the connect attempt count as well. If the client runs out of servers to reconnect, it will close the connection and raise an error.

Go

// Set max reconnects attempts
nc, err := nats.Connect("demo.nats.io", nats.MaxReconnects(10))
if err != nil {
    log.Fatal(err)
}
defer nc.Close()

// Do something with the connection

Java

Options options = new Options.Builder().
                            server("nats://demo.nats.io:4222").
                            maxReconnects(10). // Set max reconnect attempts
                            build();
Connection nc = Nats.connect(options);

// Do something with the connection

nc.close();

JavaScript

const nc = await connect({
    maxReconnectAttempts: 10,
    servers: ["demo.nats.io"],
});

Python

nc = NATS()
await nc.connect(
   servers=["nats://demo.nats.io:4222"],
   max_reconnect_attempts=10,
   )

# Do something with the connection

await nc.close()

Ruby

require 'nats/client'

NATS.start(servers: ["nats://127.0.0.1:1222", "nats://127.0.0.1:1223", "nats://127.0.0.1:1224"], max_reconnect_attempts: 10) do |nc|
   # Do something with the connection

   # Close the connection
   nc.close
end

C

natsConnection      *conn    = NULL;
natsOptions         *opts    = NULL;
natsStatus          s        = NATS_OK;

s = natsOptions_Create(&opts);
if (s == NATS_OK)
    s = natsOptions_SetMaxReconnect(opts, 10);
if (s == NATS_OK)
    s = natsConnection_Connect(&conn, opts);

(...)

// Destroy objects that were created
natsConnection_Destroy(conn);
natsOptions_Destroy(opts);