1 /*
2 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
3 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
4 * distributed with this work for additional information
5 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
6 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
7 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
8 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
9 *
10 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
11 *
12 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
13 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
14 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
15 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
16 * specific language governing permissions and limitations
17 * under the License.
18 *
19 */
20 package org.apache.directory.ldap.client.api.search;
21
22
23 /**
24 * The Search Filter interface
25 *
26 * @author <a href="mailto:dev@directory.apache.org">Apache Directory Project</a>
27 */
28 /* No qualifier*/interface Filter
29 {
30 /**
31 * Constructs a String representation of a Filter
32 *
33 * @return The constructed String
34 */
35 StringBuilder build();
36
37
38 /**
39 * Constructs a String representation of a Filter
40 *
41 * @param builder The current buffer containing the on going representation of the filter
42 * @return The constructed String
43 */
44 StringBuilder build( StringBuilder builder );
45 }