Difference between Explicit wait and Fluent Wait?

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Explicit wait waits for a specific condition while Fluent wait waits for a condition with polling interval.

Explicit wait waits for a specific condition to occur before proceeding further
Fluent wait waits for a condition with a polling interval and ignores exceptions
Explicit wait is used when we know the condition and the maximum time to wait for it
Fluent wait is used when we don't know the maximum time to wait for a condition
Example of explicit wait: WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10); wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.id("element-id")));
Example of fluent wait: Wait wait = new FluentWait(driver).withTimeout(Duration.ofSeconds(30)).pollingEvery(Duration.ofSeconds(5)).ignoring(NoSuchElementException.class);

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