From ae84b14bc9b906940c9ce57c1ece4f1c37b202aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Erik Auer <erik.auer@whizus.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2021 10:38:53 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md by adding a failure handler script

---
 README.md | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 13eb712..7c73420 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -304,6 +304,18 @@ taskApi.updateTask(task)
 raise Exception("Jenkins job was not built.")
 ```
 
+### Using Task Failure Handlers to retry a task x times without an additional releaseVariable
+
+ Define additional action in a [task failure handler](https://docs.xebialabs.com/v.10.1/release/how-to/task-failure-handler/#disabling-the-feature) an use this script to retry the failed task a maximum number of times equal to a defined value.
+
+```
+MAX_RETRY = 3
+
+task = getCurrentTask()
+if (task.failuresCount <= MAX_RETRY):
+  taskApi.retryTask(task.getId(), "Retrying task from failure handler.")
+```
+
 ### Set the release title using release variables
 
 ```