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/* * Copyright (c) 1999, 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. * * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as * published by the Free Software Foundation.  Oracle designates this * particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided * by Oracle in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code. * * This code 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 * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that * accompanied this code). * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version * 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. * * Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA * or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any * questions. */ package javax.naming.ldap; import javax.naming.NamingException; /**  * This interface represents an LDAPv3 extended operation request as defined in  * <A HREF="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2251.txt">RFC 2251</A>.  * <pre>  *     ExtendedRequest ::= [APPLICATION 23] SEQUENCE {  *              requestName      [0] LDAPOID,  *              requestValue     [1] OCTET STRING OPTIONAL }  * </pre>  * It comprises an object identifier string and an optional ASN.1 BER  * encoded value.  *<p>  * The methods in this class are used by the service provider to construct  * the bits to send to the LDAP server. Applications typically only deal with  * the classes that implement this interface, supplying them with  * any information required for a particular extended operation request.  * It would then pass such a class as an argument to the  * <tt>LdapContext.extendedOperation()</tt> method for performing the  * LDAPv3 extended operation.  *<p>  * For example, suppose the LDAP server supported a 'get time' extended operation.  * It would supply GetTimeRequest and GetTimeResponse classes:  *<blockquote><pre>  * public class GetTimeRequest implements ExtendedRequest {  *     public GetTimeRequest() {... };  *     public ExtendedResponse createExtendedResponse(String id,  *         byte[] berValue, int offset, int length)  *         throws NamingException {  *         return new GetTimeResponse(id, berValue, offset, length);  *     }  *     ...  * }  * public class GetTimeResponse implements ExtendedResponse {  *     long time;  *     public GetTimeResponse(String id, byte[] berValue, int offset,  *         int length) throws NamingException {  *         time =      ... // decode berValue to get time  *     }  *     public java.util.Date getDate() { return new java.util.Date(time) };  *     public long getTime() { return time };  *     ...  * }  *</pre></blockquote>  * A program would use then these classes as follows:  *<blockquote><pre>  * GetTimeResponse resp =  *     (GetTimeResponse) ectx.extendedOperation(new GetTimeRequest());  * long time = resp.getTime();  *</pre></blockquote>  *  * @author Rosanna Lee  * @author Scott Seligman  * @author Vincent Ryan  *  * @see ExtendedResponse  * @see LdapContext#extendedOperation  * @since 1.3  */public interface ExtendedRequest extends java.io.Serializable {     /**      * Retrieves the object identifier of the request.      *      * @return The non-null object identifier string representing the LDAP      *         <tt>ExtendedRequest.requestName</tt> component.      */    public String getID();     /**      * Retrieves the ASN.1 BER encoded value of the LDAP extended operation      * request. Null is returned if the value is absent.      *      * The result is the raw BER bytes including the tag and length of      * the request value. It does not include the request OID.      * This method is called by the service provider to get the bits to      * put into the extended operation to be sent to the LDAP server.      *      * @return A possibly null byte array representing the ASN.1 BER encoded      *         contents of the LDAP <tt>ExtendedRequest.requestValue</tt>      *         component.      * @exception IllegalStateException If the encoded value cannot be retrieved      * because the request contains insufficient or invalid data/state.      */    public byte[] getEncodedValue();     /**      * Creates the response object that corresponds to this request.      *<p>      * After the service provider has sent the extended operation request      * to the LDAP server, it will receive a response from the server.      * If the operation failed, the provider will throw a NamingException.      * If the operation succeeded, the provider will invoke this method      * using the data that it got back in the response.      * It is the job of this method to return a class that implements      * the ExtendedResponse interface that is appropriate for the      * extended operation request.      *<p>      * For example, a Start TLS extended request class would need to know      * how to process a Start TLS extended response. It does this by creating      * a class that implements ExtendedResponse.      *      * @param id       The possibly null object identifier of the response      *                 control.      * @param berValue The possibly null ASN.1 BER encoded value of the      *                 response control.      * This is the raw BER bytes including the tag and length of      * the response value. It does not include the response OID.      * @param offset   The starting position in berValue of the bytes to use.      * @param length   The number of bytes in berValue to use.      *      * @return A non-null object.      * @exception NamingException if cannot create extended response      *     due to an error.      * @see ExtendedResponse      */    public ExtendedResponse createExtendedResponse(String id,                byte[] berValue, int offset, int length) throws NamingException;     // static final long serialVersionUID = -7560110759229059814L;}