Enum JobFailureClassification

Namespace

MailFathom.Application.Jobs

Assembly

MailFathom.Application.dll

States whether repeating the work that failed could succeed without anything else changing first.

public enum JobFailureClassification

Fields

Permanent = 1

Nothing about repeating the work can change the answer; somebody has to act before it could succeed.

Transient = 0

The failure is expected to clear on its own, so the same work is worth attempting again later.

Remarks

The classification is what decides between another attempt and a dead letter, so it is answered before the attempt budget is consulted rather than after it: a permanent failure ends the job on its first attempt instead of spending the budget a fixed number of times to reach the answer it already had.

It is stored on the row as its name, like every other bounded value in this schema, so an operator asking what is stuck reads the verdict beside the reason for it.