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The UnboundID LDAP SDK for Java is a fast, comprehensive, and easy-to-use Java API for communicating with LDAP directory servers and performing related tasks like reading and writing LDIF, encoding and decoding data using base64 and ASN.1 BER, and performing secure communication. This package contains the Commercial Edition of the LDAP SDK, which includes all of the general-purpose functionality contained in the Standard Edition, plus additional functionality specific to UnboundID server products.

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/*
 * Copyright 2007-2016 UnboundID Corp.
 * All Rights Reserved.
 */
/*
 * Copyright (C) 2008-2016 UnboundID Corp.
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPLv2 only)
 * or the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPLv2.1 only)
 * as published by the Free Software Foundation.
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with this program; if not, see .
 */
package com.unboundid.ldap.sdk;



import java.io.Serializable;

import com.unboundid.asn1.ASN1OctetString;
import com.unboundid.util.Extensible;
import com.unboundid.util.ThreadSafety;
import com.unboundid.util.ThreadSafetyLevel;



/**
 * This interface defines a method that may be implemented by controls that may
 * be included in the response from a directory server.  The LDAP SDK will
 * maintain a mapping between response control OIDs and the decodeable control
 * classes that may be used to attempt to decode them.  If a control cannot be
 * decoded using this interface and an exception is thrown, then it will be
 * treated as a generic control.
 */
@Extensible()
@ThreadSafety(level=ThreadSafetyLevel.INTERFACE_THREADSAFE)
public interface DecodeableControl
       extends Serializable
{
  /**
   * Creates a new instance of this decodeable control from the provided
   * information.
   *
   * @param  oid         The OID for the control.
   * @param  isCritical  Indicates whether the control should be marked
   *                     critical.
   * @param  value       The encoded value for the control.  This may be
   *                     {@code null} if no value was provided.
   *
   * @return  The decoded representation of this control.
   *
   * @throws  LDAPException  If the provided information cannot be decoded as a
   *                         valid instance of this decodeable control.
   */
  Control decodeControl(final String oid, final boolean isCritical,
                        final ASN1OctetString value)
          throws LDAPException;
}