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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.client;
+
+import org.elasticsearch.common.unit.TimeValue;
+
+/**
+ * A base request for any requests that supply timeouts.
+ *
+ * Please note, any requests that use a ackTimeout should set timeout as they
+ * represent the same backing field on the server.
+ */
+public class TimedRequest implements Validatable {
+
+    private TimeValue timeout;
+    private TimeValue masterTimeout;
+
+    public void setTimeout(TimeValue timeout) {
+        this.timeout = timeout;
+
+    }
+
+    public void setMasterTimeout(TimeValue masterTimeout) {
+        this.masterTimeout = masterTimeout;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the request timeout
+     */
+    public TimeValue timeout() {
+        return timeout;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the timeout for the request to be completed on the master node
+     */
+    public TimeValue masterNodeTimeout() {
+        return masterTimeout;
+    }
+}