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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 2012-2018 Ping Identity Corporation
 * All Rights Reserved.
 */
/*
 * Copyright (C) 2012-2018 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.ldif;



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



/**
 * This enum defines a set of possible behaviors that may be exhibited by the
 * LDIF reader when encountering entries with duplicate attribute values.
 */
@ThreadSafety(level=ThreadSafetyLevel.COMPLETELY_THREADSAFE)
public enum DuplicateValueBehavior
{
  /**
   * Indicates that duplicate values should be stripped, so that the resulting
   * entry will have only one copy of the value.
   */
  STRIP,



  /**
   * Indicates that duplicate values should be retained, so that the resulting
   * entry may have multiple copies of the value.  This is illegal and may cause
   * significant problems with attempts to use the resulting entry.
   */
  RETAIN,



  /**
   * Indicates that any entry containing duplicate attribute values should be
   * rejected.
   */
  REJECT;



  /**
   * Retrieves the duplicate value behavior with the specified name.
   *
   * @param  name  The name of the duplicate value behavior to retrieve.  It
   *               must not be {@code null}.
   *
   * @return  The requested duplicate value behavior, or {@code null} if no such
   *          behavior is defined.
   */
  public static DuplicateValueBehavior forName(final String name)
  {
    switch (StaticUtils.toLowerCase(name))
    {
      case "strip":
        return STRIP;
      case "retain":
        return RETAIN;
      case "reject":
        return REJECT;
      default:
        return null;
    }
  }
}