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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 2007-2022 Ping Identity Corporation
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 */
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package com.unboundid.ldap.sdk;



import com.unboundid.ldif.LDIFDeleteChangeRecord;
import com.unboundid.util.NotExtensible;
import com.unboundid.util.NotNull;
import com.unboundid.util.Nullable;
import com.unboundid.util.ThreadSafety;
import com.unboundid.util.ThreadSafetyLevel;



/**
 * This interface defines a set of methods that may be safely called in an LDAP
 * delete request without altering its contents.  This interface must not be
 * implemented by any class other than {@link DeleteRequest}.
 * 


 * This interface does not inherently provide the assurance of thread safety for
 * the methods that it exposes, because it is still possible for a thread
 * referencing the object which implements this interface to alter the request
 * using methods not included in this interface.  However, if it can be
 * guaranteed that no thread will alter the underlying object, then the methods
 * exposed by this interface can be safely invoked concurrently by any number of
 * threads.
 */
@NotExtensible()
@ThreadSafety(level=ThreadSafetyLevel.INTERFACE_NOT_THREADSAFE)
public interface ReadOnlyDeleteRequest
       extends ReadOnlyLDAPRequest
{
  /**
   * Retrieves the DN of the entry to delete.
   *
   * @return  The DN of the entry to delete.
   */
  @NotNull()
  String getDN();



  /**
   * {@inheritDoc}
   */
  @Override()
  @NotNull()
  DeleteRequest duplicate();



  /**
   * {@inheritDoc}
   */
  @Override()
  @NotNull()
  DeleteRequest duplicate(@Nullable Control[] controls);



  /**
   * Retrieves an LDIF delete change record with the contents of this delete
   * request.
   *
   * @return  An LDIF delete change record with the contents of this delete
   *          request.
   */
  @NotNull()
  LDIFDeleteChangeRecord toLDIFChangeRecord();



  /**
   * Retrieves a string array whose lines contain an LDIF representation of the
   * corresponding delete change record.
   *
   * @return  A string array whose lines contain an LDIF representation of the
   *          corresponding delete change record.
   */
  @NotNull()
  String[] toLDIF();



  /**
   * Retrieves an LDIF string representation of this delete request.
   *
   * @return  An LDIF string representation of this delete request.
   */
  @NotNull()
  String toLDIFString();
}