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package org.apache.hadoop.io.retry;

/**
 * 
 * Specifies a policy for retrying method failures.
 * Implementations of this interface should be immutable.
 * 
 */
public interface RetryPolicy {
  /**
   * 
   * Determines whether the framework should retry a
   * method for the given exception, and the number
   * of retries that have been made for that operation
   * so far.
   * 
   * @param e The exception that caused the method to fail.
   * @param retries The number of times the method has been retried.
   * @return true if the method should be retried,
   *   false if the method should not be retried
   *   but shouldn't fail with an exception (only for void methods).
   * @throws Exception The re-thrown exception e indicating
   *   that the method failed and should not be retried further. 
   */
  public boolean shouldRetry(Exception e, int retries) throws Exception;
}