when to use fluent wait in selenium webdriver

Fluent wait provide additional options such as pollingEvery()  and ignoring() for handling wait for element in selenium web driver. pollingEvery() option helps to check for the element in specified time periods and ignoring() helps to ignore any exception found during element identification. We can use fluent wait as mentioned below in selenium and Java

Example script:

WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();

driver.get(“https://example.com”);

Wait<WebDriver> wait = new FluentWait<>(driver) .withTimeout(Duration.ofSeconds(20)) .pollingEvery(Duration.ofSeconds(2)) .ignoring(NoSuchElementException.class);