001/* 002 * Copyright 2008-2014 UnboundID Corp. 003 * All Rights Reserved. 004 */ 005/* 006 * Copyright (C) 2008-2014 UnboundID Corp. 007 * 008 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 009 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPLv2 only) 010 * or the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPLv2.1 only) 011 * as published by the Free Software Foundation. 012 * 013 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 014 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 015 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 016 * GNU General Public License for more details. 017 * 018 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 019 * along with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses>. 020 */ 021package com.unboundid.ldif; 022 023 024 025import com.unboundid.ldap.sdk.Entry; 026import com.unboundid.util.Extensible; 027import com.unboundid.util.ThreadSafety; 028import com.unboundid.util.ThreadSafetyLevel; 029 030 031 032/** 033 * This interface is used by the LDIFReader to translate entries read from the 034 * input or filter them out before they are returned via readEntry(). 035 */ 036@Extensible() 037@ThreadSafety(level=ThreadSafetyLevel.INTERFACE_THREADSAFE) 038public interface LDIFReaderEntryTranslator 039{ 040 /** 041 * Applies some special transformation or filtering to the original Entry. 042 * 043 * @param original The original Entry that was read and parsed from the 044 * input file. 045 * @param firstLineNumber The first line number of the LDIF record 046 * corresponding to the read Entry. This is most 047 * useful when throwing an LDIFException. 048 * 049 * @return The Entry that should be returned in the call to readEntry. This 050 * can be the original parameter Entry, a newly constructed Entry, or 051 * {@code null} to signal that this Entry should be skipped. 052 * 053 * @throws LDIFException If there is an exception during processing. This 054 * Exception will be re-thrown to the caller of 055 * readEntry. 056 */ 057 Entry translate(Entry original, long firstLineNumber) 058 throws LDIFException; 059}