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-//
-// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-// or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-// distributed with this work for additional information
-// regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-// to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-// "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-// with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-//
-//   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-//
-// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
-// software distributed under the License is distributed on an
-// "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
-// KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
-// specific language governing permissions and limitations
-// under the License.
-//
-
-package com.cloud.utils.backoff.impl;
-
-import java.util.Map;
-import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap;
-import java.util.concurrent.ThreadLocalRandom;
-
-import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
-
-import com.cloud.utils.NumbersUtil;
-import com.cloud.utils.backoff.BackoffAlgorithm;
-import com.cloud.utils.component.AdapterBase;
-
-/**
- * An implementation of BackoffAlgorithm that waits for some random seconds
- * within a given range.
- * After the time the client can try to perform the operation again.
- *
- **/
-public class RangeTimeBackoff extends AdapterBase implements BackoffAlgorithm {
-    protected static final int DEFAULT_MIN_TIME = 5;
-    private int minTime = DEFAULT_MIN_TIME;
-    private int maxTime = DEFAULT_MIN_TIME;
-    private final Map<String, Thread> asleep = new ConcurrentHashMap<>();
-    private static final Logger LOG = Logger.getLogger(RangeTimeBackoff.class.getName());
-
-    @Override
-    public void waitBeforeRetry() {
-        long time = Math.max(minTime, 0) * 1000L;
-        Thread current = Thread.currentThread();
-        try {
-            asleep.put(current.getName(), current);
-            if (maxTime > minTime) {
-                time = ThreadLocalRandom.current().nextInt(minTime, maxTime) * 1000L;
-            }
-            if (LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {
-                LOG.debug(String.format("Waiting %s for %d milliseconds", current.getName(), time));
-            }
-            Thread.sleep(time);
-        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
-            // JMX or other threads may interrupt this thread, but let's log it
-            // anyway, no exception to log as this is not an error
-            LOG.info("Thread " + current.getName() + " interrupted while waiting for retry");
-        } finally {
-            asleep.remove(current.getName());
-        }
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public void reset() {
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public boolean configure(String name, Map<String, Object> params) {
-        minTime = NumbersUtil.parseInt((String)params.get("minSeconds"), DEFAULT_MIN_TIME);
-        maxTime = NumbersUtil.parseInt((String)params.get("maxSeconds"), minTime);
-        return true;
-    }
-}