From 6918d866b8f9d66e46e84deb6ddd061236116b7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephen Hess <stephen.k.hess@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 08:59:29 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] added comments clarifying retry logic

---
 controller/place.js  | 6 ++++++
 controller/search.js | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/controller/place.js b/controller/place.js
index 9e41a47c..b2efdf04 100644
--- a/controller/place.js
+++ b/controller/place.js
@@ -53,6 +53,12 @@ function setup( apiConfig, esclient ){
           return;
         }
 
+        // if execution has gotten this far then one of three things happened:
+        // - the request didn't time out
+        // - maxRetries has been hit so we're giving up
+        // - another error occurred
+        // in either case, handle the error or results
+
         // error handler
         if( err ){
           if (_.isObject(err) && err.message) {
diff --git a/controller/search.js b/controller/search.js
index 168e47c4..2813bf3c 100644
--- a/controller/search.js
+++ b/controller/search.js
@@ -80,6 +80,12 @@ function setup( apiConfig, esclient, query ){
           return;
         }
 
+        // if execution has gotten this far then one of three things happened:
+        // - the request didn't time out
+        // - maxRetries has been hit so we're giving up
+        // - another error occurred
+        // in either case, handle the error or results
+
         // error handler
         if( err ){
           if (_.isObject(err) && err.message) {