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Support google.api_core.retry in googleapiclient.discovery.build? #2688

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It looks like googleapiclient.discovery.build() is super limited wrt to retry support is that correct?

In general is googleapiclient.discovery.build for legacy clients or APIs that Google doesn't support as fully? Some APIs use it and others have a specific library I can import and use google.api_core.retry with.

Retry has exponential backoff built into it, a bunch of sane defaults, and other features.

I generally just set a timeout value and let it use the default backoff settings which is so simple and effective for 99% of use cases I find.

Could the service client just support a Retry like this?

from googleapiclient.discovery import (build)
from google.api_core.retry import Retry

my_retry = Retry(timeout=30)
service = build("admin", "directory_v1", retry=my_retry)

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  1. daniel-sanche commented on Nov 2, 2026

    @daniel-sanche
    Contributor

    googleapiclient.discovery is not receiving new features currently, we encourage using our gapic clients in google-cloud-python instead where possible

    api_core.Retry was designed to be a general retry tool, so it may be possible to build a custom system that uses these two libraries together, but we have no plans for a built-in integration at this time

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