1/*
2 * $HeadURL: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpcomponents/httpclient/trunk/module-client/src/main/java/org/apache/http/client/HttpRequestRetryHandler.java $
3 * $Revision: 535610 $
4 * $Date: 2007-05-06 06:28:13 -0700 (Sun, 06 May 2007) $
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31
32package org.apache.http.client;
33
34import java.io.IOException;
35
36import org.apache.http.protocol.HttpContext;
37
38/**
39 * A handler for determining if an HttpRequest should be retried after a
40 * recoverable exception during execution.
41 *
42 * <p>
43 * Classes implementing this interface must synchronize access to shared
44 * data as methods of this interfrace may be executed from multiple threads
45 * </p>
46 *
47 * @author Michael Becke
48 * @author <a href="mailto:oleg at ural.ru">Oleg Kalnichevski</a>
49 *
50 * @deprecated Please use {@link java.net.URL#openConnection} instead.
51 *     Please visit <a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/09/androids-http-clients.html">this webpage</a>
52 *     for further details.
53 */
54@Deprecated
55public interface HttpRequestRetryHandler {
56
57    /**
58     * Determines if a method should be retried after an IOException
59     * occurs during execution.
60     *
61     * @param exception the exception that occurred
62     * @param executionCount the number of times this method has been
63     * unsuccessfully executed
64     * @param context the context for the request execution
65     *
66     * @return <code>true</code> if the method should be retried, <code>false</code>
67     * otherwise
68     */
69    boolean retryRequest(IOException exception, int executionCount, HttpContext context);
70
71}
72