Interface BackOffPolicy (1.41.8)

public interface BackOffPolicy

Deprecated. (scheduled to be removed in 1.18) Use HttpBackOffUnsuccessfulResponseHandler instead.

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Strategy interface to control back off between retry attempts.

Static Fields

STOP (deprecated)

public static final long STOP

Value indicating that no more retries should be made, see #getNextBackOffMillis().

Field Value

Type	Description
long

Methods

getNextBackOffMillis() (deprecated)

public abstract long getNextBackOffMillis()

Gets the number of milliseconds to wait before retrying an HTTP request. If #STOP is returned, no retries should be made.

This method should be used as follows:

long backoffTime = backoffPolicy.getNextBackoffMs(); if (backoffTime == BackoffPolicy.STOP) { // Stop retrying. } else { // Retry after backoffTime. }

Returns

Type	Description
long	the number of milliseconds to wait when backing off requests, or #STOP if no more retries should be made

Exceptions

Type	Description
IOException

isBackOffRequired(int statusCode) (deprecated)

public abstract boolean isBackOffRequired(int statusCode)

Determines if back off is required based on the specified status code.

Implementations may want to back off on server or product-specific errors.

Parameter

Name	Description
statusCode	`int` HTTP status code

Returns

Type	Description
boolean

reset() (deprecated)

public abstract void reset()

Reset Back off counters (if any) in an implementation-specific fashion.