Early failure message when backend is down.

src/auth/AxiosJwtAuthService.js

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ const optionsPropTypes = {
     REFRESH_ACCESS_TOKEN_ENDPOINT: PropTypes.string.isRequired,
     ACCESS_TOKEN_COOKIE_NAME: PropTypes.string.isRequired,
     CSRF_TOKEN_API_PATH: PropTypes.string.isRequired,
+    SHOULD_RETRY: PropTypes.bool.isRequired,
   }).isRequired,
   loggingService: PropTypes.shape({
     logError: PropTypes.func.isRequired,
@@ -58,6 +59,7 @@ class AxiosJwtAuthService {
       this.loggingService,
       this.config.ACCESS_TOKEN_COOKIE_NAME,
       this.config.REFRESH_ACCESS_TOKEN_ENDPOINT,
+      this.config.SHOULD_RETRY,
     );
     this.csrfTokenService = new AxiosCsrfTokenService(this.config.CSRF_TOKEN_API_PATH);
     this.authenticatedHttpClient = this.addAuthenticationToHttpClient(axios.create());

src/auth/AxiosJwtTokenService.js

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ export default class AxiosJwtTokenService {
     return !token || token.exp < Date.now() / 1000;
   }
 
-  constructor(loggingService, tokenCookieName, tokenRefreshEndpoint) {
+  constructor(loggingService, tokenCookieName, tokenRefreshEndpoint, shouldRetry) {
     this.loggingService = loggingService;
     this.tokenCookieName = tokenCookieName;
     this.tokenRefreshEndpoint = tokenRefreshEndpoint;
@@ -20,10 +20,17 @@ export default class AxiosJwtTokenService {
     // certificates. More on MDN:
     // https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/XMLHttpRequest/withCredentials
     this.httpClient.defaults.withCredentials = true;
-    // Add retries to this axios instance
+    const options = { httpClient: this.httpClient };
+    // Giving MFE option to fail early and show error message instead of
+    // recurrent retries.
+    if (!shouldRetry) {
+      console.log('shouldRetry');
+      options.shouldRetry = () => { return false; };
+    }
+
     this.httpClient.interceptors.response.use(
       response => response,
-      createRetryInterceptor({ httpClient: this.httpClient }),
+      createRetryInterceptor(options),
     );
 
     this.cookies = new Cookies();

src/config.js

@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ let config = {
   LOGO_TRADEMARK_URL: process.env.LOGO_TRADEMARK_URL,
   LOGO_WHITE_URL: process.env.LOGO_WHITE_URL,
   FAVICON_URL: process.env.FAVICON_URL,
+  SHOULD_RETRY: process.env.SHOULD_RETRY,
 };
 
 /**