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20 package org.apache.directory.api.ldap.codec.api;
21
22
23 /**
24 * An interface used to abstract the means to detect whether or not an attribute
25 * identifier/descriptor represents a binary attributeType.
26 */
27 public interface ConfigurableBinaryAttributeDetector extends BinaryAttributeDetector
28 {
29 /**
30 * Add some binary Attributes Id to the list of attributes
31 *
32 * @param binaryAttributes The added binary attributes Id
33 */
34 void addBinaryAttribute( String... binaryAttributes );
35
36
37 /**
38 * Remove some binary Attributes Id from the list of attributes
39 *
40 * @param binaryAttributes The binary attributes Id to remove
41 */
42 void removeBinaryAttribute( String... binaryAttributes );
43
44
45 /**
46 * Inject a new set of binary attributes that will replace the old one.
47 * If one inject a null set of attributes, the list of attributes will be
48 * cleared, and reset to the default list of binary attributes. If one
49 * injects an empty String array, then all the attributes will be removed
50 * from the list, and we won't inject the default attributes into it.
51 *
52 * @param binaryAttributes The new set of binary attributes
53 */
54 void setBinaryAttributes( String... binaryAttributes );
55 }