How to handle backoff on Facebook cursor?

[vladaman]

We're using Facebook Marketing API and we'd like to backoff when we iterate over cursor. Cursor actually fetches pages from API.

@backoff.on_exception(backoff.expo, FacebookRequestError, max_tries=8, max_value=300)
def fetch_ad_sets(my_account, fields, params):
    return my_account.get_ad_sets(
        fields=fields,
        params=params
    )

adsets_cursor: Cursor = fetch_ad_sets(my_account, fields, params)
# may throw an exception
for ad_set_record in adsets_cursor:
    # do work

Is there any way to handle this with backoff ?

[bhashithe-air]

I think you can simply wrap it with a function which is decorated with the proper exception, for example:

@backoff.on_exception(backoff.expo, FacebookRequestError, max_tries=8, max_value=300)
def fetch_ad_sets_wrapper(my_account, fields, params):
    return fetch_ad_sets(my_account, fields, params)