Polly RetryForever isn't retrying

Question

I'm, trying to check a simple RetryForever of Polly

class Program
{
    public static void Main()
    {
           
        int i = 0;
        var _retryPolicy = Policy
       .Handle<Exception>()
       .RetryForever();

        _retryPolicy.Execute(async () =>
        {
            Console.WriteLine(i);
            i++;
            int.Parse("something");
        });

        Console.ReadLine();
    }
}   

A you can see I've created a variable i to track the number of the executions

Excepted Result: print i = 0, 1, 2 etc

Actual Result: print i = 0

Answer 1

I've checked your code and you had right, its stops on 0.

But when i removed async keyword (u didnt have any async operation here) the code runs correct.

So, try this:

using Polly;

int i = 0;
var _retryPolicy = Policy
  .Handle<Exception>()
  .RetryForever();

_retryPolicy.Execute(() =>
{
  Console.WriteLine(i);
  i++;
  int.Parse("something");
  return Task.CompletedTask;
});