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+import abc
+from typing import Any, Iterable
+
+class _BaseResumptionStrategy(abc.ABC):
+    """Abstract base class defining the interface for a bidi stream resumption strategy.
+
+    This class defines the skeleton for a pluggable strategy that contains
+    all the service-specific logic for a given bidi operation (e.g., reads
+    or writes). This allows a generic retry manager to handle the common
+    retry loop while sending the state management and request generation
+    to a concrete implementation of this class.
+    """
+
+    @abc.abstractmethod
+    def generate_requests(self, state: Any) -> Iterable[Any]:
+        """Generates the next batch of requests based on the current state.
+
+        This method is called at the beginning of each retry attempt. It should
+        inspect the provided state object and generate the appropriate list of
+        request protos to send to the server. For example, a read strategy
+        would use this to implement "Smarter Resumption" by creating smaller
+        `ReadRange` requests for partially downloaded ranges. For bidi-writes,
+        it will set the `write_offset` field to the persisted size received
+        from the server in the next request.
+
+        :type state: Any
+        :param state: An object containing all the state needed for the
+                      operation (e.g., requested ranges, user buffers,
+                      bytes written).
+        """
+        pass
+
+    @abc.abstractmethod
+    def update_state_from_response(self, state: Any) -> None:
+        """Updates the state based on a successful server response.
+
+        This method is called for every message received from the server. It is
+        responsible for processing the response and updating the shared state
+        object.
+
+        :type state: Any
+        :param state: The shared state object for the operation, which will be
+                      mutated by this method.
+        """
+        pass
+
+    @abc.abstractmethod
+    async def recover_state_on_failure(self, error: Exception, state: Any) -> None:
+        """Prepares the state for the next retry attempt after a failure.
+
+        This method is called when a retriable gRPC error occurs. It is
+        responsible for performing any necessary actions to ensure the next
+        retry attempt can succeed. For bidi reads, its primary role is to
+        handle the `BidiReadObjectRedirectError` by extracting the
+        `routing_token` and updating the state. For bidi writes, it will update
+        the state to reflect any bytes that were successfully persisted before
+        the failure.
+
+        :type error: :class:`Exception`
+        :param error: The exception that was caught by the retry engine.
+
+        :type state: Any
+        :param state: The shared state object for the operation.
+        """
+        pass