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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 2008-2016 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.ldif;



import com.unboundid.ldap.sdk.Entry;
import com.unboundid.util.Extensible;
import com.unboundid.util.ThreadSafety;
import com.unboundid.util.ThreadSafetyLevel;



/**
 * This interface is used by the LDIFReader to translate entries read from the
 * input or filter them out before they are returned via
 * {@link LDIFReader#readEntry}.
 */
@Extensible()
@ThreadSafety(level=ThreadSafetyLevel.INTERFACE_THREADSAFE)
public interface LDIFReaderEntryTranslator
{
  /**
   * Applies some special transformation or filtering to the original Entry.
   *
   * @param  original         The original Entry that was read and parsed from
   *                          the input file.
   * @param  firstLineNumber  The first line number of the LDIF record
   *                          corresponding to the read Entry.  This is most
   *                          useful when throwing an LDIFException.
   *
   * @return  The Entry that should be returned in the call to
   *          {@link LDIFReader#readEntry}. This can be the original parameter
   *          Entry, a newly constructed Entry, or {@code null} to signal that
   *          the provided Entry should be skipped.
   *
   * @throws  LDIFException  If there is an exception during processing.  This
   *                         exception will be re-thrown to the caller of
   *                         readEntry.
   */
  Entry translate(Entry original, long firstLineNumber)
       throws LDIFException;
}