Doctrine Retry Bundle

A Symfony Bundle for easy retryable database transactions.

Install

Simply composer require dualmedia/doctrine-retry-bundle

Then add the bundle to your config/bundles.php file like so

return [
    Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\FrameworkBundle::class => ['all' => true],
    // other bundles ...
    DualMedia\DoctrineRetryBundle\DoctrineRetryBundle::class => ['all' => true],
];

Setup

You're free to leave the configuration as-is, otherwise all you can change is the following:

dm_doctrine_retry:
  track_nesting: '%kernel.debug%' # if true, Retrier will warn you if you nest transaction calls

Usage

use DualMedia\DoctrineRetryBundle\Retrier;
use Doctrine\ORM\EntityManagerInterface;

class Foo {
    public function __construct(
        private readonly Retrier $retrier
    ) {}
    
    public function doWork(
        int $orderId
    ): void {
        $this->retrier->execute(function (EntityManagerInterface $em) use ($orderId): void {
            // do some work which may cause deadlocks and such
            $order = $em->getRepository(SomeOrder::class)->find($orderId, \Doctrine\DBAL\LockMode::PESSIMISTIC_WRITE);
        });
    }
}

Passthrough Exceptions

By default, any \Exception thrown inside the callback will be caught, logged, and re-thrown after rolling back the transaction. If you want an exception to bypass retry logic entirely (e.g. a deliberate early exit or a business-logic exception that should propagate immediately without logging), implement PassthroughExceptionInterface:

use DualMedia\DoctrineRetryBundle\Interface\PassthroughExceptionInterface;

class OrderNotFoundException extends \RuntimeException implements PassthroughExceptionInterface {}

When Retrier encounters an exception implementing PassthroughExceptionInterface, it will:

• Skip the retry loop
• Skip logging
• Re-throw the exception immediately

This is useful for intentional control-flow exceptions that should not be treated as database failures.