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Hello Orbiters. Quick question. What would be the easy way to achieve retry 3 times for a given network request while showing to the user `First/Second/Third retry attempt` and then either fail or succeed at that point? Thanks

Are you looking for automatic retry or user interaction retry?

```
perform("something")
  .on&lt;ASD&gt;
  .transform{  NetworkCallWithRetryAndStartWith() }
  .reduce{}
```

or you could use loopback
```

perform("network")
  .on(
Event::class.java,
ErrorEvent::class.java
)
  .transform{  Network() }
  .loopBack{ if( error &amp;&amp; event.count &lt; 3) ErrorEvent else SuccessEvent }

perform("error show")
  .on(ErrorEvent::class.java)
  .reduce{ error }

perform("success show")
  .on(SuccessEvent::class.java)
  .reduce{ Success }
```

Cool thanks, I'll have a look at that `loopback`

Can you use that for asynchronous sources as well, like, let's say I want to retry 3 times but only when there's network connection?

Kind of what you can do with `retryWhen`

I would suggest to keep this in the transformer :slightly_smiling_face:

We get to work with the Rx Operators in the transformer which is powerful enough to handle all the cases.

Orbit with `.transform {}`, `.reduce{}` ,`.loopback{}` keeps the MVI pattern clear and super easy to read but does not replace the RxStream