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+// Copyright 2019 Oath Inc. Licensed under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license. See LICENSE in the project root.
+package com.yahoo.config.provision.exception;
+
+/**
+ * A provisioning exception that is considered transient. Exceptions that we expect to recover from after a short
+ * duration should extend this. Throwing a subclass of this indicates that the operation can safely be retried.
+ *
+ * @author mpolden
+ */
+public abstract class TransientException extends RuntimeException {
+
+    public TransientException(String message) {
+        super(message);
+    }
+
+    public TransientException(String message, Throwable cause) {
+        super(message, cause);
+    }
+
+}