Hystrix/Feign to solely react on HTTP status 429

Question

I'm using Feign from the spring-cloud-starter-feign to send requests to a defined backend. I would like to use Hystrix as a circuit-breaker but for only one type of use-case: If the backend responds with a HTTP 429: Too many requests code, my Feign client should wait exactly one hour until it contacts the real backend again. Until then, a fallback method should be executed.

How would I have to configure my Spring Boot (1.5.10) application in order to accomplish that? I see many configuration possibilities but only few examples which are - in my opinion - unfortunately not resolved around use-cases.

Answer 1

I could solve it with the following adjustments:

Properties in application.yml:

hystrix.command.commandKey:
  execution.isolation.thread.timeoutInMilliseconds: 10_000
  metrics.rollingStats.timeInMilliseconds: 10_000
  circuitBreaker:
    errorThresholdPercentage: 1
    requestVolumeThreshold: 1
    sleepWindowInMilliseconds: 3_600_000

Code in the respective Java class:

@HystrixCommand(fallbackMethod = "fallbackMethod", commandKey = COMMAND_KEY)
public void doCall(String parameter) {
    try {
        feignClient.doCall(parameter);
    } catch (FeignException e) {
        if (e.status() == 429) {
            throw new TooManyRequestsException(e.getMessage());
        } 
    }
}