Construct a polling policy from existing Retry and Backoff policies.
A polling policy can be built by composing a retry and backoff policy. For example, to create a polling policy that "retries N times, waiting a fixed
period between retries" you could compose the "try N times" retry policy with the "wait a fixed period between retries".
This class makes it easier to create such composed polling policies.
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For example, to create a polling policy that \"retries N times, waiting a fixed\nperiod between retries\" you could compose the \"try N times\" retry policy with the \"wait a fixed period between retries\".\n\nThis class makes it easier to create such composed polling policies.\n\nConstructors\n------------\n\n### GenericPollingPolicy(internal::RPCPolicyParameters)\n\n### GenericPollingPolicy(Retry, Backoff)\n\nFunctions\n---------\n\n### virtual clone() const\n\nReturn a new copy of this object. \nTypically implemented as \n\n return std::unique_ptr\u003cPollingPolicy\u003e(new Foo(*this));\n\n### virtual Setup(grpc::ClientContext \\&)\n\n### virtual IsPermanentError(Status const \\&)\n\nReturn true if `status` represents a permanent error that cannot be retried.\n\n### virtual OnFailure(Status const \\&)\n\nHandle an RPC failure.\n\n### virtual Exhausted()\n\nReturn true if we cannot try again.\n\n### virtual WaitPeriod()\n\nReturn for how long we should wait before trying again.\n\n### virtual IsPermanentError(grpc::Status const \\&)\n\nReturn true if `status` represents a permanent error that cannot be retried. \nTODO(#2344): remove `grpc::Status` version.\n\n### virtual OnFailure(grpc::Status const \\&)\n\nHandle an RPC failure. \nTODO(#2344): remove `grpc::Status` version."]]
