Hystrix circuitBreaker.sleepWindowInMilliseconds not working

I have a spring boot application that iteratively calls a mockserver instance via the hystrix command using a return method.

The mockserver is configured to always respond with a 500 status code. When started without using circuitBreaker.sleepWindowInMilliseconds, everything works fine, the call is made in the mockserver and then the backup method is called.

After setting circuitBreaker.sleepWindowInMilliseconds to 5 minutes or so, I would expect no calls to the mockserver to be made for 5 minutes, all calls to the fallback method, but this is not the case.

It looks like the circuitBreaker.sleepWindowInMilliseconds configuration is being ignored.

For example, if I reconfigure the mockservice to respond with a 200 status code while the iteration is still running, it will immediately return a "mockservice response" without waiting 5 minutes.

in the main class of spring boot application:

@RequestMapping("/iterate")
  public void iterate() {
    for (int i = 1; i<100; i++ ) {
      try {
        System.out.println(bookService.readingMockService());
        Thread.sleep(3000);
      } catch (Exception e) {
        System.out.println(e.getMessage());
      }
    }
  }

      

        
        
        
      

    

in spring boot service:

@HystrixCommand(groupKey = "ReadingMockService", commandKey = "ReadingMockService", threadPoolKey = "ReadingMockService", fallbackMethod = "reliableMock", commandProperties = {
          @HystrixProperty(name ="circuitBreaker.sleepWindowInMilliseconds", value = "300000") })
  public String readingMockService() {
    URI uri = URI.create("http://localhost:1080/askmock");
    return this.restTemplate.getForObject(uri, String.class);
  }

      

        
        
        
      

    

also the server layout runs on the same machine, configurable as:

new MockServerClient("127.0.0.1", 1080).reset();
   new MockServerClient("127.0.0.1", 1080)
           .when(request("/askmock"))
           .respond(response()
                   .withStatusCode(500)
                   .withBody("mockservice response")
                   .applyDelay());