org.apache.commons.httpclient
Interface HttpMethodRetryHandler

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultHttpMethodRetryHandler

public interface HttpMethodRetryHandler

A handler for determining if an HttpMethod should be retried after a recoverable exception during execution.

Classes implementing this interface must synchronize access to shared data as methods of this interfrace may be executed from multiple threads

Author:

Michael Becke, Oleg Kalnichevski

See Also:

HttpMethod.execute(HttpState, HttpConnection)

Method Summary

boolean

retryMethod(HttpMethod method, IOException exception, int executionCount) Determines if a method should be retried after an HttpRecoverableException occurs during execution.

Method Detail

retryMethod

public boolean retryMethod(HttpMethod method,
                           IOException exception,
                           int executionCount)

Determines if a method should be retried after an HttpRecoverableException occurs during execution.

Parameters:

method - the method being executed

exception - the exception that occurred

executionCount - the number of times this method has been unsuccessfully executed

Returns:

true if the method should be retried, false otherwise