= MicroProfile Fault Tolerance - Fallback
:index-group: MicroProfile
:jbake-type: page
:jbake-status: published

This is an example of how to use Microprofile @Fallback in TomEE.

== Fallback Feature
Fault Tolerance Fallback provides an alternative execution in case of failure. This alternative will be called when
`Retry` or `CircuitBreaker` has failed.

To use this feature you need to annotate the method with `@Fallback`.

The Fallback policy allows to configure :

* **value**: A class which implements `FallbackHandler`
* **fallbackMethod**: a method which will be executed.

The parameters `value` and `fallbackMethod` cannot be specified at the same time.

Check the http://download.eclipse.org/microprofile/microprofile-fault-tolerance-1.1/microprofile-fault-tolerance-spec.html[specification] for more details.

== Examples

=== Run the application

    mvn clean install tomee:run   
    
=== Example 1

The method `statusOfDay` will always fail throwing a `WeatherException` and as the
`@CircuitBreaker` annotation is configured to `failOn` in case of that exception, the fallback,
`WeatherDayStatusFallbackHandler#handle` will be invoked.

```java
@RequestScoped
public class WeatherService {
   ...
   @GET
   @Path("/day/status")
   @CircuitBreaker(failOn = WeatherException.class)
   @Fallback(WeatherDayStatusFallbackHandler.class)
   public String dayStatus() {
       throw new WeatherException();
   }
   ...
 }

public class WeatherDayStatusFallbackHandler implements FallbackHandler<String> {

   @Override
   public String handle(ExecutionContext executionContext) {
       return "Hi, today is a sunny day!";
   }
}
```

Day status call

    GET http://localhost:8080/mp-faulttolerance-fallback/weather/day/status
    
Server log
```
SEVERE [http-nio-8080-exec-2] org.superbiz.rest.WeatherDayStatusFallbackHandler.handle WeatherDayStatusFallbackHandler was triggered due a fail
```

Response
``` 
Hi, today is a sunny day!
```

=== Example 2

The method `statusOfDay` will always fail throwing a `WeatherException` and as the
`@Retry` annotation is configured to `maxRetries = 1` in case of fail, the fallback method,
`fallbackForWeekStatus` will be invoked after retrying once.

```java
@RequestScoped
public class WeatherService {
  ...
  @GET
  @Path("/week/status")
  @Retry(maxRetries = 1)
  @Fallback(fallbackMethod = "fallbackForWeekStatus")
  public String weekStatus() {
      throw new WeatherException();
  }

  public String fallbackForWeekStatus() {
      return "Hi, week will be mostly sunny!";
  }
  ...
}
```

Week status call

    GET http://localhost:8080/mp-faulttolerance-fallback/weather/week/status

Server log

```
SEVERE [http-nio-8080-exec-2] org.superbiz.rest.WeatherService.fallbackForWeekStatus Fallback was triggered due a fail

```

Response
``` 
Hi, week will be mostly sunny!
```


=== Run the tests

You can also try it out using the link:src/test/java/org/superbiz/rest/WeatherServiceTest.java[WeatherServiceTest.java] available in the project.

    mvn clean test
    
```
[INFO] Results:
[INFO] 
[INFO] Tests run: 2, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0
```