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package com.google.common.util.concurrent.internal;


/**
 * A future that, if it fails, may <i>optionally</i> provide access to the cause of the failure.
 *
 * <p>This class is used only for micro-optimization. Standard {@code Future} utilities benefit from
 * this optimization, so there is no need to specialize methods to return or accept this type
 * instead of {@code ListenableFuture}.
 *
 * <p>This class is GWT-compatible.
 *
 * @since {@code com.google.guava:failureaccess:1.0}, which was added as a dependency of Guava in
 *     Guava 27.0
 */
public abstract class InternalFutureFailureAccess {
  /** Constructor for use by subclasses. */
  protected InternalFutureFailureAccess() {}

  /**
   * Usually returns {@code null} but, if this {@code Future} has failed, may <i>optionally</i>
   * return the cause of the failure. "Failure" means specifically "completed with an exception"; it
   * does not include "was cancelled." To be explicit: If this method returns a non-null value,
   * then:
   *
   * <ul>
   *   <li>{@code isDone()} must return {@code true}
   *   <li>{@code isCancelled()} must return {@code false}
   *   <li>{@code get()} must not block, and it must throw an {@code ExecutionException} with the
   *       return value of this method as its cause
   * </ul>
   *
   * <p>This method is {@code protected} so that classes like {@code
   * com.google.common.util.concurrent.SettableFuture} do not expose it to their users as an
   * instance method. In the unlikely event that you need to call this method, call {@link
   * InternalFutures#tryInternalFastPathGetFailure(InternalFutureFailureAccess)}.
   */
  protected abstract
      Throwable tryInternalFastPathGetFailure();
}
