Send message fails to retry on ratelimited error

[andre-qumulo]

Description

We had a send fail with:

Run slackapi/slack-github-action@v1.25.0
axios post failed, double check the payload being sent includes the keys Slack expects
{
  username: 'github/repo',
  channel: '#some-channel',
  text: 'A message'
}
Error: {"retry_after":1,"ok":false,"error":"rate_limited"}
Error: Request failed with status code 429

It seems like this failure could be retries after a default timeout

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Reproducible in:

package version: 1.25.0

node version:

OS version(s):

Steps to reproduce:

1. Have a message get a rate_limited error

Expected result:

The action would retry up to an upper limit of time

Actual result:

The action just fails

Attachments:

Run slackapi/slack-github-action@v1.25.0
axios post failed, double check the payload being sent includes the keys Slack expects
{
  username: 'github/repo',
  channel: '#some-channel',
  text: 'A message'
}
Error: {"retry_after":1,"ok":false,"error":"rate_limited"}
Error: Request failed with status code 429

[WilliamBergamin]

Hi @andre-qumulo thanks for writing in 💯

This seems to be a feature request for a retry option, we already have #245 open on the subject of retries

[zimeg]

👋 Hello! We landed support for a retries option in @v2.0.0 that'll retry failed API requests that might succeed again, such as the 429 rate_limited error you're finding here.

Different options of available timing are included in the README, but an example step with retries and the latest update might resemble:

- name: Allow multiple attempts for sending
  uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@v2.0.0
  with:
    retries: rapid
    webhook: ${{ secrets.SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL }}
    webhook-type: webhook-trigger
    payload: |
      username: "github/repo"
      channel: "#some-channel"
      text: "A message"

This option applies to all other sending techniques too, and now that it's been released I think we can close this issue! Please feel free to follow up if you're finding this isn't working as you're expecting, but otherwise I hope rate limits can be mostly avoided with good timings 👻