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Auth and PostgREST — the two modules that already retried — now do so through a single middleware driven by a package-scoped RetryPolicy value: equal-jitter capped exponential backoff (cap/2...cap), Retry-After honoured up to the cap, a fixed set of retryable methods and statuses, a curated allowlist of transient URLError codes, and an immediate stop on cancellation. Every retry carries X-Retry-Count: n.

The retry middleware runs outermost, ahead of the caller's middlewares and the SDK's own, so every attempt re-runs the whole chain and a replayed request carries a freshly resolved access token. A cancelled task always surfaces as CancellationError, even when the transport reports URLError.cancelled.

The retry rule is per target. PostgREST keeps its fixed postgrest-js rule (GET/HEAD, 503/520, 4 attempts) and only its on/off switch stays public; its private loop is deleted. Auth keeps retrying POST, PUT and DELETE so token refreshes are replayed, and still does not retry 429. The Realtime reconnect delay reuses the same jitter math and clamps reconnectDelay so a non-finite value cannot trap.

Storage and Functions are unchanged: they do not retry. Deciding which of their requests are safe to replay is a separate task, which is why RetryPolicy is package rather than public.

Breaking (behavior only, compiles silently): retry timing changes for Auth, PostgREST and Realtime; Auth makes 3 attempts instead of 2; PostgREST retries only transient URLErrors instead of any error; custom ClientMiddlewares run once per attempt; a cancelled request throws CancellationError. See the new section in V3_MIGRATION.md.

Review first: Sources/Helpers/HTTP/RetryPolicy.swift (the delay math and Retry-After parsing), Sources/Helpers/HTTP/RetryRequestInterceptor.swift (what is retried) and HTTPClient.init(configuration:retrying:appending:) in HTTPClientConfiguration.swift (middleware order). Everything else is wiring.

Test evidence

━ Test run with 1504 tests in 149 suites passed after 8.900 seconds with 1 known issue.
xcrun swift-format lint --recursive --strict Sources Tests → exit 0
CSpell: Files checked: 403, Issues found: 0 in 0 files.
./scripts/test-docs.sh  → exit 0, no DocC warnings
./scripts/format.sh     → working tree clean

The known issue is pre-existing. New tests: RetryPolicyTests (jitter bounds, cap, overflow with a huge base, Retry-After delta-seconds / HTTP-date / garbage), a rewritten RetryRequestInterceptorTests (statuses, methods, deterministic vs transient URLErrors, attempts, cancellation including URLError.cancelledCancellationError, bodies, delays, X-Retry-Count), HTTPClientTests.retryRunsOutsideTheCallersMiddlewares, APIClientTests.rateLimitedRequestIsNotRetried for Auth, ConnectionManagerTests.reconnectBackoffClampsAnUnusableBaseDelay, and a PostgREST test pinning that a 500 on GET is never retried.

Note for CI: SwiftPM's incremental build once kept stale default-argument values for RetryPolicy.init; a clean build (rm -rf .build) fixed it locally.

A companion spec draft for database.configuration.auto_retry is written locally in supabase/sdk and will follow as a separate PR.

Fixes SDK-1791

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  • New Features

    • Improved retry handling across Auth, PostgREST, and Realtime with jittered exponential backoff.
    • Added support for Retry-After response headers.
    • Middleware now runs once per retry attempt.
    • Rate-limited Auth requests are no longer retried.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved cancellation handling and safeguards for invalid reconnect delays.
    • PostgREST retry behavior now consistently targets eligible transient failures.
  • Documentation

    • Updated retry and reconnect behavior guidance, including migration notes.

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The change introduces a shared RetryPolicy and policy-driven RetryRequestInterceptor. Auth, PostgREST, and Realtime now use centralized jittered backoff behavior. HTTP retries can honor Retry-After, track retry counts, drain discarded bodies, and normalize cancellation. Auth excludes 429 responses. PostgREST creates the retrying client per request. Realtime clamps reconnect delays and uses equal jitter. Tests and migration documentation cover the updated behavior.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant AuthOrPostgREST
  participant HTTPClient
  participant RetryRequestInterceptor
  participant Middleware
  participant Transport
  AuthOrPostgREST->>HTTPClient: send request
  HTTPClient->>RetryRequestInterceptor: execute retry policy
  RetryRequestInterceptor->>Middleware: run middleware chain
  Middleware->>Transport: send attempt
  Transport-->>RetryRequestInterceptor: response or transient failure
  RetryRequestInterceptor->>RetryRequestInterceptor: wait with backoff or Retry-After
  RetryRequestInterceptor->>Middleware: run next attempt
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In `@Sources/Helpers/HTTP/RetryPolicy.swift`:
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Retry-After HTTP-date that is not in the future returns nil instead of a
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grdsdev and others added 3 commits September 16, 2026 06:53
…orage and Functions

Auth, PostgREST, Storage and Functions now retry through a single
middleware driven by a `RetryPolicy` value: full-jitter capped exponential
backoff, `Retry-After` honoured up to the cap, idempotent methods only
unless an `Idempotency-Key` header is present, stop on cancellation.
The retry rule is per target. PostgREST keeps its fixed postgrest-js rule
(GET/HEAD, 503/520, 4 attempts) and only its on/off switch is public; its
private loop is deleted. Storage and Functions gain retries for the first
time, with a public, configurable `retryPolicy`. Auth keeps retrying POST
so token refreshes are replayed. The Realtime reconnect delay carries the
same full jitter.

BREAKING CHANGE: retry timing changes for every module (jitter instead of
a fixed schedule; Auth makes 3 attempts instead of 2), Storage and
Functions start retrying transient failures by default, and only
`URLError` counts as a retryable transport failure. See V3_MIGRATION.md.

Fixes SDK-1791

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Retry now runs outermost so every attempt re-runs the caller's middlewares
and resolves a fresh access token. A cancelled task surfaces as
CancellationError even when the transport reports URLError.cancelled. Only
the curated set of transient URLError codes is retried again. Backoff uses
equal jitter (cap/2...cap) and caps before multiplying so a huge base cannot
overflow Duration; Realtime clamps reconnectDelay so a non-finite value
cannot trap. The Idempotency-Key escape hatch is removed.

Storage and Functions no longer gain retries in this PR: deciding which of
their requests are safe to replay is a separate task, so RetryPolicy is
package-scoped and only Auth and PostgREST use it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
…le date

A `Retry-After` HTTP-date that has already passed used to yield a zero
wait, so every client that saw it replayed at the same instant — the
thundering herd the jitter exists to prevent. A date that is not in the
future now parses as `nil` and the jittered backoff applies. Future dates
and delta-seconds are unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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⚠️ Capability matrix drift detected

The following capabilities are marked implemented in the matrix but could not be found in swift:

  • client.session_management.persist_session → expected symbol: AuthLocalStorage.defaultLocalStorage
  • functions.invocation.streaming_response → expected symbol: FunctionsClient._invokeWithStreamedResponse

The following capabilities are marked implemented in swift but have no registered symbols to verify:

  • auth.passkey.register_passkey (no symbols list — cannot confirm implementation exists)
  • auth.passkey.sign_in_with_passkey (no symbols list — cannot confirm implementation exists)
  • client.observability.trace_propagation (no symbols list — cannot confirm implementation exists)
  • database.using_modifiers.request_cancellation (no symbols list — cannot confirm implementation exists)
  • functions.invocation.request_cancellation (no symbols list — cannot confirm implementation exists)
  • storage.file_buckets.url_cache_nonce (no symbols list — cannot confirm implementation exists)
  • storage.file_buckets.request_cancellation (no symbols list — cannot confirm implementation exists)

These may have been renamed, removed, or never registered. Please update the capability matrix.
See: https://github.com/supabase/sdk/blob/main/packages/capability-matrix/docs/capability-matrix.md

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