--- /dev/null
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2016 Cisco Systems, Inc. and others. All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
+ * terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution,
+ * and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+ */
+package org.opendaylight.controller.cluster.access.commands;
+
+import akka.actor.ActorRef;
+import com.google.common.annotations.Beta;
+import org.opendaylight.controller.cluster.access.concepts.RequestException;
+
+/**
+ * General error raised when the recipient of a Request is not the correct backend to talk to. This typically
+ * means that the backend processing has moved and the frontend needs to run rediscovery and retry the request.
+ *
+ * @author Robert Varga
+ */
+@Beta
+public final class NotLeaderException extends RequestException {
+ private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
+
+ public NotLeaderException(final ActorRef me) {
+ super("Actor " + me + " is not the current leader");
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public boolean isRetriable() {
+ return false;
+ }
+}