SmokeTestWatcherWithSecurityIT: Retry if failures searching .watcher-…

…history

Catch exceptions and fail (which allows the assertBusy to retry)
if an error happens from the search against .watcher-history.

Related: elastic#42409
Related: elastic#39169

x-pack/qa/smoke-test-watcher-with-security/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/smoketest/SmokeTestWatcherWithSecurityIT.java

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
 import org.elasticsearch.client.Request;
 import org.elasticsearch.client.Response;
+import org.elasticsearch.client.ResponseException;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.Strings;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.settings.SecureString;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.settings.Settings;
@@ -330,6 +331,10 @@ private ObjectPath getWatchHistoryEntry(String watchId, String state) throws Exc
                 String watchid = objectPath.evaluate("hits.hits.0._source.watch_id");
                 assertThat(watchid, is(watchId));
                 objectPathReference.set(objectPath);
+            } catch (ResponseException e) {
+                final String err = "Failed to perform search of watcher history - " + e;
+                logger.info(err);
+                fail(err);
             }
         });
         return objectPathReference.get();