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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.util;



import java.io.Serializable;

import com.unboundid.asn1.ASN1OctetString;



/**
 * This interface defines a set of methods for treating a value as either a
 * string or byte array.
 */
@NotExtensible()
@ThreadSafety(level=ThreadSafetyLevel.INTERFACE_THREADSAFE)
public interface ByteString
       extends Serializable
{
  /**
   * Retrieves a byte array containing the binary value for this byte string.
   *
   * @return  A byte array containing the binary value for this byte string.
   */
  byte[] getValue();



  /**
   * Retrieves the value for this byte string as a {@code String}.
   *
   * @return  The value for this byte string as a {@code String}.
   */
  String stringValue();



  /**
   * Appends the value of this byte string to the provided buffer.  It must not
   * use the {@link ByteStringBuffer#append(ByteString)} method, since that
   * method relies on this method.
   *
   * @param  buffer  The buffer to which the value should be appended.
   */
  void appendValueTo(final ByteStringBuffer buffer);



  /**
   * Converts this byte string to an ASN.1 octet string.
   *
   * @return  An ASN.1 octet string with the value of this byte string.
   */
  ASN1OctetString toASN1OctetString();
}