Repetition

In the case of repetition, ZIO has a ZIO#repeat function, which takes a schedule as a repetition policy and returns another effect that describes an effect with repetition strategy according to that policy.

Repeat policies are used in the following functions:

• ZIO#repeat — Repeats an effect until the schedule is done.
• ZIO#repeatOrElse — Repeats an effect until the schedule is done, with a fallback for errors.

Note:

Scheduled recurrences are in addition to the first execution, so that io.repeat(Schedule.once) yields an effect that executes io, and then if that succeeds, executes io an additional time.

Let's see how we can create a repeated effect by using ZIO#repeat function:

val action:      ZIO[R, E, A] = ???
val policy: Schedule[R1, A, B] = ???

val repeated = action repeat policy

There is another version of repeat that helps us to have a fallback strategy in case of errors, if something goes wrong we can handle that by using the ZIO#repeatOrElse function, which helps up to add an orElse callback that will run in case of repetition failure:

val action:       ZIO[R, E, A] = ???
val policy: Schedule[R1, A, B] = ???

val orElse: (E, Option[B]) => ZIO[R1, E2, B] = ???

val repeated = action repeatOrElse (policy, orElse)