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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 Standard Edition of the LDAP SDK, which is a complete, general-purpose library for communicating with LDAPv3 directory servers.

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/*
 * Copyright 2009-2018 Ping Identity Corporation
 * All Rights Reserved.
 */
/*
 * Copyright (C) 2009-2018 Ping Identity Corporation
 *
 * 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.ldap.protocol;



import java.io.Serializable;

import com.unboundid.asn1.ASN1Buffer;
import com.unboundid.asn1.ASN1Element;
import com.unboundid.util.InternalUseOnly;
import com.unboundid.util.NotExtensible;
import com.unboundid.util.ThreadSafety;
import com.unboundid.util.ThreadSafetyLevel;



/**
 * This interface defines a set of methods that should be implemented by all
 * types of LDAP protocol ops.
 */
@InternalUseOnly()
@NotExtensible()
@ThreadSafety(level=ThreadSafetyLevel.INTERFACE_NOT_THREADSAFE)
public interface ProtocolOp
       extends Serializable
{
  /**
   * Retrieves the BER type for this protocol op.
   *
   * @return  The BER type for this protocol op.
   */
  byte getProtocolOpType();



  /**
   * Encodes this protocol op to an ASN.1 element suitable for inclusion in an
   * encoded LDAP message.
   *
   * @return  The ASN.1 element containing the encoded protocol op.
   */
  ASN1Element encodeProtocolOp();



  /**
   * Writes an ASN.1-encoded representation of this LDAP protocol op to the
   * provided ASN.1 buffer.  This method is intended for internal use only and
   * should not be used by third-party code.
   *
   * @param  buffer  The ASN.1 buffer to which the encoded representation should
   *                 be written.
   */
  void writeTo(ASN1Buffer buffer);



  /**
   * Appends a string representation of this LDAP protocol op to the provided
   * buffer.
   *
   * @param  buffer  The buffer to which the string representation should be
   *                 appended.
   */
  void toString(StringBuilder buffer);
}