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+/*
+ * Licensed to Elasticsearch under one or more contributor
+ * license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ * ownership. Elasticsearch 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 org.elasticsearch.action;
+
+import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamInput;
+import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamOutput;
+import org.elasticsearch.transport.TransportRequest;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+/**
+ *
+ */
+public abstract class ActionRequest<T extends ActionRequest> extends TransportRequest {
+
+    private boolean listenerThreaded = false;
+
+    protected ActionRequest() {
+        super();
+    }
+
+    protected ActionRequest(ActionRequest request) {
+        super(request);
+        // this does not set the listenerThreaded API, if needed, its up to the caller to set it
+        // since most times, we actually want it to not be threaded...
+        //this.listenerThreaded = request.listenerThreaded();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Should the response listener be executed on a thread or not.
+     * <p/>
+     * <p>When not executing on a thread, it will either be executed on the calling thread, or
+     * on an expensive, IO based, thread.
+     */
+    public final boolean listenerThreaded() {
+        return this.listenerThreaded;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Sets if the response listener be executed on a thread or not.
+     */
+    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+    public final T listenerThreaded(boolean listenerThreaded) {
+        this.listenerThreaded = listenerThreaded;
+        return (T) this;
+    }
+
+    public abstract ActionRequestValidationException validate();
+
+    @Override
+    public void readFrom(StreamInput in) throws IOException {
+        super.readFrom(in);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void writeTo(StreamOutput out) throws IOException {
+        super.writeTo(out);
+    }
+}