Interface BackOffPolicy (1.42.3)

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.