SearchIntegrationTest.simpleSearch not returning expected number of rows

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Error Message

expected: <[68d4af31-7726-434d-9440-063711abec23]> but was: <[]>

Stacktrace

org.opentest4j.AssertionFailedError: expected: <[68d4af31-7726-434d-9440-063711abec23]> but was: <[]> at org.junit.jupiter.api.AssertionUtils.fail(AssertionUtils.java:55) at org.junit.jupiter.api.AssertionUtils.failNotEqual(AssertionUtils.java:62) at org.junit.jupiter.api.AssertEquals.assertEquals(AssertEquals.java:182) at org.junit.jupiter.api.AssertEquals.assertEquals(AssertEquals.java:177) at org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals(Assertions.java:1124) at com.couchbase.client.java.SearchIntegrationTest.lambda$simpleSearch$0(SearchIntegrationTest.java:91) at com.couchbase.client.java.SearchIntegrationTest.runWithRetry(SearchIntegrationTest.java:107) at com.couchbase.client.java.SearchIntegrationTest.simpleSearch(SearchIntegrationTest.java:81)

I'm confused why the assertion is inside the retry loop?  Won't that just fail the test rather than retry?