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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 2009-2016 UnboundID Corp.
 * All Rights Reserved.
 */
/*
 * Copyright (C) 2009-2016 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.
 *
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 */
package com.unboundid.ldap.sdk.persist;



import java.io.Serializable;

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



/**
 * This class provides a mechanism that can be used for generating object
 * identifiers (OIDs) for use in attribute type and object class definitions
 * constructed for use in representing an object in the directory.
 * 


 * Note that OIDs generated are not necessarily required to be valid, nor are
 * they required to be unique.  As such, OIDs included in generated attribute
 * type and object class definitions may need to be edited before the
 * definitions can be added to the directory server.
 */
@Extensible()
@ThreadSafety(level=ThreadSafetyLevel.INTERFACE_THREADSAFE)
public abstract class OIDAllocator
       implements Serializable
{
  /**
   * The serial version UID for this serializable class.
   */
  private static final long serialVersionUID = -2031217984148568974L;



  /**
   * Allocates an OID for the attribute type with the specified name.
   *
   * @param  name  The name of the attribute type for which to generate an OID.
   *               It must not be {@code null} or empty.
   *
   * @return  The OID to use for the attribute type definition.
   */
  public abstract String allocateAttributeTypeOID(final String name);



  /**
   * Allocates an OID for the object class with the specified name.
   *
   * @param  name  The name of the object class for which to generate an OID.
   *               It must not be {@code null} or empty.
   *
   * @return  The OID to use for the object class definition.
   */
  public abstract String allocateObjectClassOID(final String name);
}