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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 2015-2023 Ping Identity Corporation
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package com.unboundid.util.args;



import com.unboundid.util.Extensible;
import com.unboundid.util.NotNull;
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(@NotNull Argument argument,
                                             @NotNull String valueString)
         throws ArgumentException;
}