com.unboundid.ldif.LDIFReaderChangeRecordTranslator Maven / Gradle / Ivy
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* Copyright 2015-2017 UnboundID Corp.
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*
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package com.unboundid.ldif;
import com.unboundid.util.Extensible;
import com.unboundid.util.ThreadSafety;
import com.unboundid.util.ThreadSafetyLevel;
/**
* This interface is used by the LDIFReader to translate change records read
* from the input or filter them out before they are returned via
* {@link LDIFReader#readChangeRecord}.
*/
@Extensible()
@ThreadSafety(level=ThreadSafetyLevel.INTERFACE_THREADSAFE)
public interface LDIFReaderChangeRecordTranslator
{
/**
* Applies some special transformation or filtering to the original change
* record.
*
* @param original The original change record that was read and
* parsed from the input file.
* @param firstLineNumber The first line number of the LDIF change record.
* This is most useful when throwing an
* {@code LDIFException}.
*
* @return The LDIF change record that should be returned in the call to
* {@link LDIFReader#readChangeRecord}. This can be the original
* parameter change record, a newly constructed change record, or
* {@code null} to signal that the provided change record should be
* skipped.
*
* @throws LDIFException If there is an exception during processing. This
* exception will be re-thrown to the caller of
* readChangeRecord.
*/
LDIFChangeRecord translate(LDIFChangeRecord original, long firstLineNumber)
throws LDIFException;
}