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package org.cp.elements.lang.support;

import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicLong;

import org.cp.elements.lang.IdentifierSequence;
import org.cp.elements.lang.concurrent.ThreadSafe;

/**
 * The SimpleIdentifierSequence class is an implementation of the {@link IdentifierSequence} interface generating
 * unique, Long-typed identifiers.  This implementation uses the Thread-safe {@link AtomicLong} class, making
 * this class Thread-safe.
 *
 * While this maybe useful for testing purposes, it should not be used in distributed systems where multiple application
 * or system components may generate ID's using different instances of this class in separate JVMs.
 *
 * @author John J. Blum
 * @see java.lang.Long
 * @see java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicLong
 * @see org.cp.elements.lang.IdentifierSequence
 * @since 1.0.0
 */
@SuppressWarnings("unused")
@ThreadSafe
public class SimpleIdentifierSequence implements IdentifierSequence {

  private static final AtomicLong ID_SEQUENCE = new AtomicLong(0l);

  /**
   * Generates the next unique ID in sequence.
   *
   * @return the next unique Long ID in the sequence.
   * @see java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicLong#incrementAndGet()
   */
  @Override
  public Long nextId() {
    return ID_SEQUENCE.incrementAndGet();
  }

}