org.springframework.retry
Interface RetryState

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultRetryState

public interface RetryState

Stateful retry is characterised by having to recognise the items that are being processed, so this interface is used primarily to provide a cache key in between failed attempts. It also provides a hints to the RetryOperations for optimisations to do with avoidable cache hits and switching to stateless retry if a rollback is not needed.

Author:

Dave Syer

Method Summary

java.lang.Object	getKey() Key representing the state for a retry attempt.
boolean	isForceRefresh() Indicate whether a cache lookup can be avoided.
boolean	rollbackFor(java.lang.Throwable exception) Check whether this exception requires a rollback.

Method Detail

getKey

java.lang.Object getKey()

Key representing the state for a retry attempt. Stateful retry is characterised by having to recognise the items that are being processed, so this value is used as a cache key in between failed attempts.

Returns:

the key that this state represents

isForceRefresh

boolean isForceRefresh()

Indicate whether a cache lookup can be avoided. If the key is known ahead of the retry attempt to be fresh (i.e. has never been seen before) then a cache lookup can be avoided if this flag is true.

Returns:

true if the state does not require an explicit check for the key

rollbackFor

boolean rollbackFor(java.lang.Throwable exception)

Check whether this exception requires a rollback. The default is always true, which is conservative, so this method provides an optimisation for switching to stateless retry if there is an exception for which rollback is unnecessary. Example usage would be for a stateful retry to specify a validation exception as not for rollback.

Parameters:

exception - the exception that caused a retry attempt to fail

Returns:

true if this exception should cause a rollback