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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
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 */
package com.unboundid.ldap.sdk;



import java.util.List;

import com.unboundid.ldif.LDIFModifyChangeRecord;
import com.unboundid.util.NotExtensible;
import com.unboundid.util.ThreadSafety;
import com.unboundid.util.ThreadSafetyLevel;



/**
 * This interface defines a set of methods that may be safely called in an LDAP
 * modify request without altering its contents.  This interface must not be
 * implemented by any class other than {@link ModifyRequest}.
 * 


 * This interface does not inherently provide the assurance of thread safety for
 * the methods that it exposes, because it is still possible for a thread
 * referencing the object which implements this interface to alter the request
 * using methods not included in this interface.  However, if it can be
 * guaranteed that no thread will alter the underlying object, then the methods
 * exposed by this interface can be safely invoked concurrently by any number of
 * threads.
 */
@NotExtensible()
@ThreadSafety(level=ThreadSafetyLevel.INTERFACE_NOT_THREADSAFE)
public interface ReadOnlyModifyRequest
       extends ReadOnlyLDAPRequest
{
  /**
   * Retrieves the DN of the entry to modify.
   *
   * @return  The DN of the entry to modify.
   */
  String getDN();



  /**
   * Retrieves the set of modifications for this modify request.  The returned
   * list must not be altered.
   *
   * @return  The set of modifications for this modify request.
   */
  List getModifications();



  /**
   * {@inheritDoc}
   */
  ModifyRequest duplicate();



  /**
   * {@inheritDoc}
   */
  ModifyRequest duplicate(final Control[] controls);



  /**
   * Retrieves an LDIF modify change record with the contents of this modify
   * request.
   *
   * @return  An LDIF modify change record with the contents of this modify
   *          request.
   */
  LDIFModifyChangeRecord toLDIFChangeRecord();



  /**
   * Retrieves a string array whose lines contain an LDIF representation of the
   * corresponding modify change record.
   *
   * @return  A string array whose lines contain an LDIF representation of the
   *          corresponding modify change record.
   */
  String[] toLDIF();



  /**
   * Retrieves an LDIF string representation of this modify request.
   *
   * @return  An LDIF string representation of this modify request.
   */
  String toLDIFString();
}