What is the difference between include and exclude in @Retryable?

In older versions of Spring Retry, @Retryable had include and exclude attributes to specify which exception classes should or should not trigger a retry. In newer versions (Spring Retry 1.3+), these were renamed to retryFor and noRetryFor respectively for clarity, though the old names are still supported as aliases.

Priority and interaction rules:

• If both retryFor and noRetryFor are specified, the exception must match retryFor AND not match noRetryFor for a retry to occur.
• If neither is specified, all exceptions trigger a retry (defaulting to Exception.class).
• If only noRetryFor is specified, all exceptions except those listed are retried.

@Retryable(
    retryFor = { IOException.class },
    noRetryFor = { FileNotFoundException.class }
)
public void readFile(String path) { ... }

This retries IOException but not the subclass FileNotFoundException, which is useful when a missing file is a permanent error and retrying it is pointless.

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