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017package org.apache.camel.spi;
018
019import org.apache.camel.Consumer;
020import org.apache.camel.Endpoint;
021
022/**
023 * Strategy for a {@link org.apache.camel.PollingConsumer} when polling an {@link org.apache.camel.Endpoint}.
024 * <p/>
025 * This pluggable strategy allows to plugin different implementations what to do, most noticeable what to
026 * do in case the polling goes wrong. This can be handled in the
027 * {@link #rollback(org.apache.camel.Consumer , org.apache.camel.Endpoint , int, Exception) rollback} method.
028 *
029 * @version 
030 */
031public interface PollingConsumerPollStrategy {
032
033    /**
034     * Called when poll is about to begin
035     *
036     * @param consumer the consumer
037     * @param endpoint the endpoint being consumed
038     * @return <tt>true</tt> to begin polling, or <tt>false</tt> to skip polling this time.
039     */
040    boolean begin(Consumer consumer, Endpoint endpoint);
041
042    /**
043     * Called when poll is completed successfully
044     *
045     * @param consumer the consumer
046     * @param endpoint the endpoint being consumed
047     * @param polledMessages number of messages polled, will be <tt>0</tt> if no message was polled at all.
048     */
049    void commit(Consumer consumer, Endpoint endpoint, int polledMessages);
050
051    /**
052     * Called when poll failed
053     *
054     * @param consumer the consumer
055     * @param endpoint the endpoint being consumed
056     * @param retryCounter current retry attempt, starting from 0.
057     * @param cause the caused exception
058     * @throws Exception can be used to rethrow the caused exception. Notice that thrown an exception will
059     *         terminate the scheduler and thus Camel will not trigger again. So if you want to let the scheduler
060     *         to continue to run then do <b>not</b> throw any exception from this method.
061     * @return whether to retry immediately or not. Return <tt>false</tt> to ignore the problem,
062     *         <tt>true</tt> to try immediately again
063     */
064    boolean rollback(Consumer consumer, Endpoint endpoint, int retryCounter, Exception cause) throws Exception;
065
066}