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027package com.unboundid.directory.sdk.common.api;
028
029
030
031import com.unboundid.directory.sdk.broker.internal.BrokerExtension;
032import com.unboundid.directory.sdk.ds.internal.DirectoryServerExtension;
033import com.unboundid.directory.sdk.metrics.internal.MetricsEngineExtension;
034import com.unboundid.directory.sdk.proxy.internal.DirectoryProxyServerExtension;
035import com.unboundid.directory.sdk.sync.internal.SynchronizationServerExtension;
036import com.unboundid.ldap.sdk.LDAPException;
037import com.unboundid.util.Extensible;
038import com.unboundid.util.ThreadSafety;
039import com.unboundid.util.ThreadSafetyLevel;
040
041
042
043/**
044 * This interface defines a set of methods that may be implemented by a thread
045 * which should be run in the server.  If an extension needs to create one or
046 * more threads, then those threads should implement this interface and they
047 * should be created using the
048 * {@link com.unboundid.directory.sdk.common.types.ServerContext#createThread}
049 * method.
050 */
051@Extensible()
052@DirectoryServerExtension()
053@DirectoryProxyServerExtension(appliesToLocalContent=true,
054     appliesToRemoteContent=false)
055@SynchronizationServerExtension(appliesToLocalContent=true,
056     appliesToSynchronizedContent=false)
057@MetricsEngineExtension()
058@BrokerExtension()
059@ThreadSafety(level=ThreadSafetyLevel.INTERFACE_NOT_THREADSAFE)
060public interface ServerThread
061{
062  /**
063   * Performs the actual processing for this thread.  When this method returns,
064   * the thread will stop running.
065   *
066   * @throws  LDAPException  If the thread does not complete successfully.
067   */
068  void runThread()
069       throws LDAPException;
070}