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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 2015-2016 UnboundID Corp.
 * All Rights Reserved.
 */
/*
 * Copyright (C) 2015-2016 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.args;



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



/**
 * This class defines an API that may be used to create argument value
 * validators, which can be used to enforce additional constraints on the values
 * provided to an argument.
 */
@Extensible()
@ThreadSafety(level=ThreadSafetyLevel.INTERFACE_NOT_THREADSAFE)
public abstract class ArgumentValueValidator
{
  /**
   * Examines the value(s) assigned to the provided argument to determine
   * whether they are acceptable.
   *
   * @param  argument     The argument to which the value is being provided.
   * @param  valueString  The string representation of the value to be
   *                      validated.  This value will have already passed any
   *                      normal validation performed by the argument.
   *
   * @throws  ArgumentException  If the provided value is determined to be
   *                             unacceptable.
   */
  public abstract void validateArgumentValue(final Argument argument,
                                             final String valueString)
         throws ArgumentException;
}