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



/**
 * This interface defines an API that may be used to establish a connection
 * (and perform authentication if appropriate) to a remote server when following
 * a referral.
 * 


 * Implementations of this interface should be threadsafe to ensure that
 * multiple connections will be able to safely use the same
 * {@code ReferralConnector} instance.
 */
@Extensible()
@ThreadSafety(level=ThreadSafetyLevel.INTERFACE_THREADSAFE)
public interface ReferralConnector
{
  /**
   * Retrieves an (optionally authenticated) LDAP connection for use in
   * following a referral as defined in the provided LDAP URL.  The connection
   * will automatically be closed after the referral has been followed.
   *
   * @param  referralURL  The LDAP URL representing the referral being followed.
   * @param  connection   The connection on which the referral was received.
   *
   * @return  An LDAP connection established and optionally authenticated to the
   *          target system that may be used to attempt to follow a referral.
   *
   * @throws  LDAPException  If a problem occurs while establishing the
   *                         connection or performing authentication on it.  If
   *                         an exception is thrown, then any underlying
   *                         connection should be terminated before the
   *                         exception is thrown.
   */
  LDAPConnection getReferralConnection(final LDAPURL referralURL,
                                       final LDAPConnection connection)
                 throws LDAPException;
}