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package org.springframework.batch.core.step.skip;

/**
 * Policy for determining whether or not some processing should be skipped.
 * 
 * @author Lucas Ward
 * @author Dave Syer
 */
public interface SkipPolicy {

	/**
	 * Returns true or false, indicating whether or not processing should
	 * continue with the given throwable.
	 * 
	 * @param t exception encountered while reading
	 * @param skipCount currently running count of skips
	 * @return true if processing should continue, false otherwise.
	 * @throws SkipLimitExceededException if a limit is breached
	 * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the exception is null
	 */
	boolean shouldSkip(Throwable t, int skipCount) throws SkipLimitExceededException;

}
