Overwriting retries / retry decider for individual calls in AWS SDK - php

Question

Is there a way of overwriting retries for an individual call in AWS SDK for PHP?
The following code explains the question:
// Create client with a default of 2 retries
$sqsClient = new sqsClient('2012-11-05', ['retries' => 2]);
// This will retry twice to get the queue attributes (perfect)
try {
$sqsClient->getQueueAttributes();
} catch(Exception $e) {
}
// I want the following to NEVER retry
try {
$sqsClient->turnOffRetryLogic(???);
$sqsClient->receiveMessages(['WaitTimeSeconds' => 5]);
} catch(Exception $e) {
}
// Now set the retries back to as before.
Retries are handled by Middleware - but as the Middleware class is marked "final" I need to pass in a "decider"? This means we need to hook into one of the handlers but none appear to be connected to retries.
Edit:
I have managed to prove the concept of a new "decider" by directly editing the AWS SDK as follows:
final class Middleware
{
public static function retry(
callable $decider = null,
callable $delay = null,
$stats = false
) {
....
$decider = function() {
echo 'retries cancelled';
return false;
};
....
So the question is how to do this without editing the SDK. Have tried various middleware hooks as follows, without success.
$decider = function() {
echo 'No retries';
return false;
};
$SqsClient->getHandlerList()->appendSign(\AWS\Middleware::retry($decider, null), 'retry');
$result = $SqsClient->receiveMessage($aParams);
(Code samples snipped to only show relevant parts)

Answer 1

Next code removes retry handler
$sqsClient->getHandlerList()->remove('retry');
Sqs client isn't going to retry after that. To restore default behavior you can attach default handler back
$decider = RetryMiddleware::createDefaultDecider(3);
$sqsClient->getHandlerList()->appendSign(
Middleware::retry($decider, null, false),
'retry'
);
Though, two separate clients with retries enabled and disabled sound more transparent for me.