[Bug]: When consumer fails to react to SQS instant retry occurs

[fraserbenjamin]

Describe the bug

If the consumer cannot connect to SQS due to no internet connection or the unlikely event SQS is down, if pollingWaitTimeMs is 0 (set by default), it will instantly retry the connection causing a continual flurry of requests. There is currently no option to resolve this other than by setting pollingWaitTimeMs to a higher value however this also isn't ideal since it adds a longer wait between polls too. Currently authentication errors are caught and can have a back-off configured with authenticationErrorTimeout though this doesn't exist for general connection errors.

Your minimal, reproducible example

https://stackblitz.com/github/fraserbenjamin/sqs-consumer-starter?file=index.js

Steps to reproduce

Once the application starts you will see the console quickly filled up with error messages saying Could not load credentials from any providers, although if you had credentials available it would then say SQS receive message failed: The specified queue does not exist and if there was a connectivity issue you would get SQS receive message failed: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND sqs.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com

Expected behavior

As a user I expected these retries to be throttled after a failure but instead I see requests continuously being made and error messages being sent to the console at an excessive rate.

How often does this bug happen?

Every time

Screenshots or Videos

Platform

Occurs on all platforms and tested with the issue happening on Node versions 16-20.

Package version

9.1.0

AWS SDK version

3.547.0

Additional context

No response

[fraserbenjamin]

I've created a PR to resolve this issue here #485

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🎉 This issue has been resolved in version 10.1.0 🎉

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• npm package (@latest dist-tag)

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