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package org.apache.hadoop.io.retry;
import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceStability;
/**
* An implementer of this interface is capable of providing proxy objects for
* use in IPC communication, and potentially modifying these objects or creating
* entirely new ones in the event of certain types of failures. The
* determination of whether or not to fail over is handled by
* {@link RetryPolicy}.
*/
@InterfaceStability.Evolving
public interface FailoverProxyProvider {
/**
* Get the proxy object which should be used until the next failover event
* occurs.
*
* @return the proxy object to invoke methods upon
*/
public Object getProxy();
/**
* Called whenever the associated {@link RetryPolicy} determines that an error
* warrants failing over.
*
* @param currentProxy the proxy object which was being used before this
* failover event
*/
public void performFailover(Object currentProxy);
/**
* Return a reference to the interface this provider's proxy objects actually
* implement. If any of the methods on this interface are annotated as being
* {@link Idempotent}, then this fact will be passed to the
* {@link RetryPolicy#shouldRetry(Exception, int, int, boolean)} method on
* error, for use in determining whether or not failover should be attempted.
*
* @return the interface implemented by the proxy objects returned by
* {@link FailoverProxyProvider#getProxy()}
*/
public Class<?> getInterface();
}